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Sankt-Peterburgskiye Vedomosti (St. Petersburg Gazette)
St. Petersburg Gazette
also: Петербургские ведомости, St. Petersburg Gazette
A long-running Russian daily newspaper of record; invoked here for comic bathos as the ash of a burned copy prescribed in a mock love-cure recipe.
Reading notes
- To D. V. Grigorovich, 12 February 1887. Moscow. §7 the "Petersburg Gazette"
Chekhov references and disputes a published review of Grigorovich's story, arguing the critic misidentified the source of the story's tonal breaks: not the characters themselves but their inserted characterizations.
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 September 1887. Moscow. §17 St. Petersburg Gazette
"Sankt-Peterburgskiye Vedomosti" ("St. Petersburg Gazette"), a paper of record distinct from the Peterburgskaya Gazeta named in sections 3 and 20 of this letter; the translation was corrected to preserve that distinction.