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Skopinskie kartinki (Skopin Sketches)
Skopin Sketches
also: Скопинские картинки, Skopin Pictures
A set of short satirical pieces on the Rykov bank-fraud trial that Chekhov sent Leikin for Oskolki in November 1884 in place of a standard feuilleton, judging the scandal too large to compress into the magazine's usual 40-50 line limit.
Reading notes
- To N. A. Leikin, 25 November 1884. Moscow. §5 Skopin Sketches
"Skopinskie kartinki" (Skopin Sketches), a set of short satirical pieces on the Rykov trial that Chekhov sent Leikin in place of a full feuilleton, judging the scandal too large to compress into Oskolki's standard 40-50 line format.