Loskutnaya Hotel

Reading notes

• To N. A. Leikin, 12–13 February 1884. Moscow. §5 Loskutnaya Hotel

  A well-known Moscow hotel near Red Square, a common meeting place for writers and journalists in the 1880s.

• To N. A. Leikin, 4 November 1884. Moscow. §6 at the Loskutnaya

  A well-known Moscow hotel where Chekhov and Leikin evidently met in person to hash out the terms of his supplementary payments for topics.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 5 January 1889. Moscow. §5 the Loskutnaya

  The Loskutnaya Hotel, a well-known Moscow hotel near Red Square, already established in this corpus; mentioned here only as a place Chekhov is scouting for rooms, unfavorably compared to the dull, grey "Moscow hotel."

• To N. N. Obolonsky, 12–13 February 1889. Moscow. §2 Loskutnaya

  The Loskutnaya Hotel, a well-known Moscow hotel near Red Square that recurs throughout this corpus as a place visitors from Petersburg and elsewhere lodged. Pleshcheyev is staying there, in Room 17.

• To Ye. M. Shavrova, 2 September 1891. Bogimovo. §4 Loskutnaya

  The Loskutnaya Hotel, a well-known Moscow hostelry near Red Square where traveling provincials commonly stayed; Shavrova's stay there prompted Chekhov's brother Mikhail to guess, on no firmer evidence than the address, that she was relocating to Petersburg -- a piece of passed-along gossip Chekhov turns into a genuine question rather than treating as settled fact.