place
Aleksin
also: Алексин
A town in Tula province where Chekhov's brother Mikhail Pavlovich held his post as tax inspector in late 1890, and to which Chekhov's telegrams to him were addressed by that official title rather than a home address.
Reading notes
- To Ye. M. Shavrova, 2 September 1891. Bogimovo. §2 Aleksin
The nearest post town to Bogimovo, from which letters written at the estate would actually have been sent; the second, informal dateline here ("2 September, Aleksin") recurs across the Bogimovo-period letters in this corpus.
- To M. P. Chekhov, 5 December 1890 §4 Алексин. Податному инспектору Чехову.
The delivery address on the telegram form, not part of Chekhov's wire text proper. Addressed by M. P. Chekhov's official post -- tax inspector (податной инспектор) at Aleksin, Tula province -- rather than a home address, since the telegram was routed to him there.
- To M. P. Chekhov, 6 December 1890. Fastov. §4 Алексин. Податному инспектору Чехову.
The delivery address on the telegram form, not part of Chekhov's wire text proper. Addressed by M. P. Chekhov's official post -- tax inspector (податной инспектор) at Aleksin, Tula province -- rather than a home address, identical in wording to the routing block of (5 December 1890), the previous day's telegram to the same brother from the same journey.
- To V. G. Chertkov, 2 May 1891. Moscow. §7 the town of Aleksin, Tula province
Chekhov's summer address, in the estate country south of Moscow where he and his family were settling for the season after his return from abroad.
- To I. P. Chekhov, 4 May 1891. Aleksin. §1 Aleksin
Town in Tula province on the Oka, where Chekhov's brother Mikhail had held a post the previous year (cf./860/864); by May 1891 the family has taken a dacha nearby for the summer, the subject of this letter.
- To I. P. Chekhov, 4 May 1891. Aleksin. §4 Aleksin station, Syzran-Vyazma line
The postal address Chekhov gives Ivan for replies, naming the railway line (Syzran-Vyazma) that serves Aleksin station.
- To A. S. Suvorin, 7 May 1891. Aleksin. §3 Aleksin station, on the Syzran-Vyazma railway
Chekhov gives his unusual mailing address in full: he is renting a dacha for the summer of 1891 near the station at Aleksin, on the Oka in Tula province, and explains that correspondence reaches him informally, through the stationmaster, since he lives by the station rather than in the town proper (cf. the companion letter of 4 May to his brother, which describes the same arrangement).
- To I. P. Chekhov, 15 May 1891. Aleksin. §1 Aleksin
Town in Tula province on the Oka where the Chekhov family had taken a dacha for the summer of 1891; this brief note, eleven days later, is written from the same dacha.
- To L. S. Mizinova, 23 May 1891. Bogimovo. §3 Address: Aleksin, Tula Province
Chekhov gives Aleksin as the address for correspondence even though the family itself has, in the same sentence, already relocated to Bogimovo (Kaluga Province); Aleksin remained the nearest post/forwarding town for mail, a distinction also made explicit in the companion letter, \S9 ("The address is not Aleksin station but the town of Aleksin") and reflected in the travel directions given to Suvorin in, \S3 (buy a ticket to Aleksin, then travel on to Bogimovo by road).
- To A. S. Suvorin, 25 June 1891. Bogimovo. §2 Aleksin has burned entirely down
Aleksin, the Tula-province town near Bogimovo through which the family's mail and errands normally ran (cf. \S3 for the travel route via Aleksin); Chekhov reports a fire there has wiped out local supply, forcing him to have coffee, soap, and soda brought instead from Moscow.
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 6 August 1891. Bogimovo. §4 send them to the town of Aleksin
Chekhov's general-delivery address near Bogimovo for the summer of 1891, used repeatedly across this run of letters to Alexander.