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Skopin
also: Скопин
A small town in Ryazan province, Russia, site of the Skopin Mutual Credit Society whose 1875 collapse in a massive fraud became a national financial scandal.
Reading notes
- Idyll -- Alas and Alack! §6 Skopin
A small town in Ryazan province, Russia, site of the Skopin Mutual Credit Society -- whose 1875 collapse in a massive Ponzi-style fraud became a national scandal and a byword for financial swindling.
- Pictures from the Recent Past §34 Skopin town council
The dума (duma), Skopin's elected town council, was nominally responsible for overseeing the mutual credit society's annual accounts -- the oversight this scene shows being neutralized from within.
- To N. A. Leikin, 26 November 1884. Moscow. §10 Skopin
The Ryazan-province town where the fraudulent bank was based and where the trial's associated public interest ("pictures from Skopin") was running high; Chekhov offers to supply more court-sketch material if it proves popular.
- The Mysteries of One Hundred and Forty-Four Catastrophes §6 Skopin
A small town in Ryazan province, chosen for the punchline that follows: it was the real seat of the fraudulent Skopin Mutual Credit Society whose 1875 collapse and trial made 'Skopin' a byword for financial swindling.