place

the Psyol

Psyol

also: Пеле, Псёл, Psel

A river in what is now northeastern Ukraine, near Sumy, on whose bank Chekhov rents a summer "den" for the Lintvaryov-estate stay of summer 1888.

Reading notes

To M. P. Chekhov, 24–25 April 1888. Moscow. §3 at Pel
The river Psyol (Псёл), near the Lintvaryov estate at Sumy where the Chekhov household would summer; Chekhov here uses his early, imperfect spelling "Пел"/"Pel," the same form he uses in the roughly contemporaneous letter to G. M. Chekhov before he settles into the standard spelling "Псёл"/"Psyol" in later letters (e.g.).
To P. A. Sergeyenko, 4 May 1888. Moscow. §5 a den on the river Psyol
A river near Sumy, in what is now northeastern Ukraine, on whose bank Chekhov has rented rooms for the summer at the Lintvaryov estate.
To I. P. Chekhov, 7–8 May 1888. Sumy. §10 The river is wider
The unnamed 'river' is the Psyol, on whose bank the Lintvaryov estate stands near Sumy; Chekhov does not name it explicitly here but describes it by comparison.
To N. A. Leikin, 21 June 1888. Sumy. §3 bank of the Psel
The Psyol (Psel), a river near Sumy where Chekhov was renting a summer dacha on the Lintvaryov estate in 1888; here it figures in his passing daydream of settling in Ukraine and taking up medicine.
To A. S. Lazarev, 26 June 1888. Sumy. §7 The Psyol has taken it into its head to be a sea
The Psyol, the river near Sumy on whose bank Chekhov was renting a summer place with the Lintvaryov family in 1888; personified here as whipping itself into a storm.
To the Chekhovs, 23 July 1888. Feodosia. §10 on to the Psel
The river Psel (Psyol) at Luka, near Sumy, where Chekhov intends to have Suvorin's gift of two boats sent for use at the family's summer dacha.
To K. S. Barantsevich, 12 August 1888. Sumy. §15 Psyol
The river near the Lintvaryov estate at Luka, where Chekhov was summering; the closing line is a comic mock-superstition about throwing his trousers into it.
To A. S. Suvorin, 10 October 1888. Moscow. §4 The Psyol
The Psyol River in the Sumy district where the Chekhov family summered in 1888 (see and the following letters of that season).
To M. P. Chekhova, 26 April 1889. Sumy. §3 the Psyol is majestically gentle
The Psyol (Псёл), a river in what is now northeastern Ukraine, runs past the Lintvaryov estate at Luka near Sumy.
To A. S. Suvorin, 4 May 1889. Sumy. §15 the bank of the Psyol
The river Psyol, on whose bank the Lintvaryova estate at Luka, near Sumy, stood; matches the corpus's established Sumy/Luka setting for the 1888-1889 summers.
To I. L. Leontyev, 6 May 1889. Sumy. §3 the Psyol
The river running past the Lintvaryov estate at Sumy, the Chekhov family's regular summer retreat in these years.
To V. A. Tikhonov, 31 May 1889. Sumy. §4 The Psyol
The river running past the Lintvaryov estate at Luka, near Sumy.
To A. S. Suvorin, 22 November 1891. Moscow. §4 a bank of the Psyol
The Psyol, a river in what is now northeastern Ukraine; the estate under discussion here, near Sorochintsy in Poltava province, is a different stretch of the same river from the one on which Chekhov had rented a summer "den" during the 1888 Lintvaryov-estate stay.
To N. M. Lintvareva, 5 March 1890. Moscow. §4 bathing in the Psyol
The Psyol, the river running past the Lintvaryov family's Luka estate near Sumy, where the Chekhov household had summered since 1888; river-bathing was a fixture of the Luka summers Chekhov is here wistfully needling Trosha about missing out on this year.