Peterburgskaya Gazeta (Petersburg Gazette)

Reading notes

• To N. A. Leikin, 1 April 1885. Moscow. §6 "Pet. gaz."

  Shorthand for Peterburgskaya Gazeta ("Petersburg Gazette"), the daily for which Chekhov had begun placing short stories from 1885; the source of the pieces "Novosti dnya" was lifting.

• To N. A. Leikin, 28 April 1885. Moscow. §6 the Petersburg Gazette

  Peterburgskaya Gazeta, a St. Petersburg daily (distinct from the older Sankt-Peterburgskiye Vedomosti); Chekhov here agrees to become a regular contributor of stories, a standing arrangement that would grow into one of his major outlets.

• To N. A. Leikin, 5 January 1886. Moscow. §13 "Pet. Gaz."

  Chekhov's informal abbreviation for the Peterburgskaya Gazeta (Petersburg Gazette), a daily newspaper he subscribed to and occasionally wrote for; Leikin, based in Petersburg, was well placed to chase down a lapsed subscription on Chekhov's behalf.

• To M. V. Kiseleva, 29 October 1886. Moscow. §6 requires a raise

  Chekhov had a running fee dispute with the Peterburgskaya Gazeta over his per-line rate; this letter's parenthetical aside is resolved a few paragraphs later (section 13) when word arrives that the paper has agreed to raise his rate from 7 to 12 kopecks a line.

• To N. A. Leikin, 17 June 1884. Moscow. §7 Petersburg Gazette

  A separate St. Petersburg daily from the older Sankt-Peterburgskiye Vedomosti; Chekhov is asking Leikin to place both a review copy and a paid advertisement for his new book.

• To N. A. Leikin, 4 November 1884. Moscow. §10 Peterburgskaya Gazeta

  A St. Petersburg daily for which Chekhov here angles to place feuilletons on the Rykov trial, a year before he became a regular contributor of short stories to it.

• To N. A. Leikin, 17 November 1884. Moscow. §15 "Pet gaz"

  Chekhov's own clipped shorthand for the Peterburgskaya Gazeta, the paper he was covering the Rykov trial for.

• To N. A. Leikin, 26 November 1884. Moscow. §8 Peterburgskaya gazeta

  The St. Petersburg daily for which Chekhov, newly graduated as a physician, was covering the sensational Skopin bank-fraud trial as a courtroom correspondent -- unfamiliar, demanding work quite different from his usual comic sketches.

• To N. A. Leikin, 23 December 1884. Moscow. §6 the "Petersburg Gazette"

  Peterburgskaya Gazeta, a Petersburg daily that also bought Chekhov's stories and was slow to pay him, hence his complaint here.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 8 January 1887. Moscow. §6 "Peterburgskaya Gazeta"

  A St. Petersburg daily newspaper for which Chekhov had been a regular contributor of short stories since 1885; distinct from Novoye Vremya.

• To N. A. Leikin, 12 January 1887. Moscow. §4 the "Gazette"

  The Peterburgskaya Gazeta (Petersburg Gazette), a St. Petersburg daily for which Chekhov had been supplying short stories since 1885, distinct from Novoye Vremya.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 26 January 1887. Moscow. §4 the "Peterburgskaya Gazeta"

  A St. Petersburg daily newspaper for which Chekhov had been a regular contributor of short stories since 1885; the fee owed here is to be collected by his brother Alexander at its office.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 30 January 1887. Moscow. §2 Peterburgskaya gazeta

  The St. Petersburg daily to which Chekhov was then a regular contributor; the bill mentioned concerns payment or delivery tied to his work there.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 19–20 February 1887. Moscow. §8 especially in the "Petersburg Gazette"

  Peterburgskaya Gazeta ("The Petersburg Gazette"), a daily newspaper to which Bilibin was also a contributor; Chekhov singles it out as a venue where Bilibin's writing had grown especially stale.

• To N. A. Leikin, 7 April 1887. Taganrog. §8 the "Gazeta"

  The Peterburgskaya Gazeta (Petersburg Gazette), for which Chekhov had become a regular short-story contributor since 1885.

• To the Chekhov Family, 25 April 1887. Cherkassk. §8 the "Peterburgskaya Gazeta"

  The St. Petersburg daily for which Chekhov had become a regular short-story contributor since 1885, and from which he here asks his family to draw an advance fee if needed.

• To N. A. Leikin, 4 June 1887. Babkino. §3 "Petersburg Gazette"

  Peterburgskaya Gazeta, a St. Petersburg daily for which Chekhov was a regular contributor of short stories from 1885, alongside his work for Leikin's "Oskolki."

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

  The Peterburgskaya Gazeta ("Petersburg Gazette"), the daily paper for which Chekhov wrote a regular feuilleton/story series in 1886-87 and from which this fee is owed.

• To N. A. Leikin, 11 September 1887. Moscow. §6 Gazeta

  The "Peterburgskaya gazeta" (Petersburg Gazette), the St. Petersburg daily to which Chekhov was increasingly shifting his short fiction at this period, easing away from Leikin's "Oskolki"; he notes he has settled into a Monday sending schedule.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 September 1887. Moscow. §3 Pet gaz

  Chekhov's clipped shorthand for the Peterburgskaya Gazeta, the St. Petersburg daily to which he was a regular short-story contributor and from whose office Alexander is to collect payment.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 24 October 1887. Moscow. §10 Peter Gazette

  Chekhov's colloquial shorthand for the Peterburgskaya Gazeta (Petersburg Gazette), the newspaper he asks Alexander to visit on his behalf regarding the line-count errand described in the following sections.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 29 October 1887. Moscow. §4 the fee from the "Peterburgskaya Gazeta"

  Chekhov was a regular contributor to the Peterburgskaya Gazeta from 1885; the unpaid fee, routed through Alexander in Petersburg, is the letter's chief practical concern.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 27 December 1887. Moscow. §8 Peter Gazette

  Chekhov's habitual clipped nickname (source: "Петер газ") for the \textit{Peterburgskaya Gazeta} (Petersburg Gazette), one of the two periodicals -- alongside \textit{Novoye Vremya} -- from which Alexander is instructed to collect and combine the outstanding fee.

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 23 January 1888. Moscow. §3 Peterburgskaya Gazeta

  The St. Petersburg daily for which Chekhov, under financial pressure at the start of the month, dashed off a quick story instead of continuing work on "The Steppe."

• Georgy M. Gusopoulo, January 29, 1888. Moscow. §4 "Peterburgskaya Gazeta"

  The St. Petersburg daily to which Chekhov was a regular story contributor; Gusopoulo is asked to collect the fee owed for "Sleepy" and forward it.

• To A. S. Lazarev, 22 March 1888. Moscow. §3 An opportunity has come up for you to work on the "Petersburg Gazette."

  The Peterburgskaya Gazeta, a St. Petersburg daily for which Chekhov himself had begun contributing short stories; he is here brokering a similar opening for his friend Lazarev (Gruzinsky).

• To N. A. Leikin, 29 March 1888. Moscow. §9 "Peterb gazete"

  The Peterburgskaya Gazeta (Petersburg Gazette), a Petersburg daily to which Leikin apparently had influence and to which Chekhov was helping steer Gruzinsky, disclaiming credit for himself.

• To N. A. Leikin, 23 April 1888. Moscow. §7 prod him into sending me the customary bonus that is the practice at the "Peterburgskaya gazeta."

  The Petersburg daily edited by Khudekov, for which Chekhov also wrote; Leikin's ploy, as Chekhov reads it, was to shame Khudekov publicly into paying out the bonus that paper customarily owed its contributors, rather than to fund it himself.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 14 September 1888. Moscow. §5 "Petersburg > gaz," ... "Oskolki," ... "Sever," ... "Niva"

  Chekhov runs down the periodicals he means to write for through the winter to earn money: "Peterburgskaya Gazeta" and "Oskolki," his old comic-journalism outlets from his Antosha Chekhonte days, alongside the illustrated weeklies "Sever" and "Niva" as further paying venues.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 20 December 1888. Moscow. §8 I'm sitting down to write a story for the "Petersburg Gazette."

  "Петерб газеты" (i.e. "Петербургская газета"), the St. Petersburg newspaper for which Chekhov regularly wrote short stories in this period, already established in this corpus as.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 28 December 1888. Moscow. §8 I read about my "Ivanov" in the "Petersburg Gazette."

  Peterburgskaya Gazeta, a Petersburg daily distinct from Suvorin's own "Novoye Vremya"; here abbreviated in the source as "Пет газете." Normalized to "Petersburg Gazette" / "Peterburgskaya Gazeta" per this entity's established canonical naming.

• To the Chekhovs, 31 December 1891. Petersburg. §6 Peterburgskaya Gazeta

  The St. Petersburg daily newspaper, first attested at, to which the family will now subscribe starting with the New Year -- the practical news item paired here with its publisher Khudekov's visit and rate offer.

• To N. M. Yezhov, 2 January 1892. Petersburg. §10 In the "Petersburg Gazette" there are portraits of A. S. Lazarev and you. Under yours is written -- Lazarev, and under Lazarev's -- Yezhov. This is not good.

  A small, concrete editorial mishap reported deadpan: the paper printed portraits of Lazarev-Gruzinsky and Yezhov with their captions swapped. Chekhov's flat 'this is not good' (\'eto nekhorosho) is characteristic understatement rather than real alarm, but the detail is a useful, dateable data point about the same jubilee issue mentioned in \S6.

• To N. M. Yezhov, 7 January 1892. Petersburg. §5 я прицепил этот серебряный жетон на ключ

  The silver jeton is the same commemorative medal Khudekov handed Chekhov at the "Peterburgskaya gazeta" jubilee five days earlier, for delivery to Yezhov and Gruzinsky (\S6: "Худеков вручил мне два именных жетона (к сожалению, серебряных)"). Suvorina's mock-magnanimous boast -- that she has humbly pinned her own silver jeton to a key rather than sulking that it isn't gold -- picks up directly on Chekhov's own rueful parenthetical five days before ("к сожалению, серебряных" / "silver, unfortunately"), turning his private aside into a running joke about the jetons' disappointing metal. See crossrefs to for the fuller thread.