Voskresensk

Reading notes

• To N. A. Leikin, 7 September 1886. Voskresensk. §1 Voskresensk

  A small town near Moscow (now Istra) where Chekhov's family took summer lodgings in 1886; he had earlier worked there briefly as a local doctor's assistant.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 8 November 1882. Moscow. §4 Voskresensk

  A small town near Moscow (now Istra), where Chekhov himself worked briefly as a local doctor's assistant in these years and where Nikolai was evidently also staying.

• To A. N. Kanayev, 26 March 1883. Moscow. §12 Voskresensk

  A small town near Moscow (now called Istra) where Chekhov had worked as a local doctor's assistant, proposed here as a possible joint excursion.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 13 May 1883. Moscow. §5 Voskresensk

  A small town near Moscow (now Istra) where Chekhov's family had a summer connection and where he worked briefly as a doctor's assistant; he is about to leave for it as the letter closes its first half.

• To I. I. Babakin, 1883. Voskresensk. §1 Voskresensk

  A small town near Moscow (now Istra) where Chekhov spent part of his summers with his family in the early 1880s, and the dateline of this brief note.

• To N. A. Leikin, 26 May 1883. Voskresensk. §1 Voskresensk

  A small town northwest of Moscow (now called Istra) where Chekhov's family was summering in 1883 and where he himself later did brief medical work; the return address he is anxious Leikin get right.

• To N. A. Leikin, 4 June 1883. Voskresensk. §1 Voskresensk

  A small town northwest of Moscow (now called Istra) where Chekhov's family was summering in 1883; the return address from which this letter is dated.

• To N. A. Leikin, 27 June 1883. Voskresensk. §6 Voskresensk

  A small town near Moscow (now called Istra) where Chekhov's brother Ivan taught school and where Chekhov himself spent long stretches in the early 1880s, including while writing this letter.

• To N. A. Leikin, 25 December 1883. Moscow. §23 Voskresensk

  A small town near Moscow (now Istra) where Chekhov's brother Ivan was then working, and to which this letter's enclosures were to be sent.

• To N. A. Leikin, 17 June 1884. Moscow. §8 Voskresensk

  A small town near Moscow (now Istra) where Chekhov's family summered and where he had earlier worked briefly as a doctor's assistant; his mail and fees were to be sent there for the rest of the summer.

• To Ye. I. Yunosheva, 1884. Moscow. §4 Voskresensk

  A small town near Moscow (now Istra) where the Chekhov family spent the summer of 1884; the mock-ceremonial bells and cannon-fire are a joking promise of welcome there.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, July 1884. Zvenigorod. §7 Voskresensk

  A small town near Moscow (now Istra) where Chekhov was then receiving mail, to be forwarded on from there.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 3 June 1887. Babkino. §16 Voskresensk

  A small town (now Istra) near Babkino where Chekhov had earlier worked briefly as a doctor's assistant; given here as the mailing point for correspondence, in Moscow province.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 26 June 1887. Babkino. §8 Voskresensk

  The town nearest Babkino, with its own post office; Chekhov specifies the money post runs Tuesdays and Fridays.

• To A. S. Lazarev, 27–28 June 1887. Babkino. §5 Voskresensk

  The nearest train station and post town to Babkino, the Kiselyov estate where the Chekhovs summered; telegrams and mail for Babkino were addressed here.

• To N. A. Leikin, 11 August 1887. Babkino. §3 Voskresensk

  The nearest town with a proper post office to Babkino; Chekhov relies on a messenger to carry mail there to catch the connection on to Petersburg.

• To N. A. Leikin, 21 August 1887. Babkino. §13 Voskresensk

  The post town nearest Babkino (now Istra), where Chekhov collected his mail; naming the exact day of the last money-post before his deadline (28 August, a Friday) underscores how tightly the advance request was timed.