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Asie
"Asie"
also: Asie
A French-language travel book (on Asia) that Chekhov here reports sending back to Suvorin -- evidently a book Suvorin owned or had lent him, plausibly useful background reading for the Sakhalin project. Not further identified or attributed to a specific author in the letter; title left in its original French form as given in the source rather than translated or expanded.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 4 March 1890. Moscow. §7 Вашу "Asie"
"Asie" is a French-language travel book belonging to (or lent by) Suvorin, which Chekhov here reports sending back -- presumably after reading or consulting it, plausibly in connection with his Sakhalin preparations, though the letter does not say so explicitly. The French title is left untranslated and unglossed in-text per the source, since Chekhov himself gives no further identification; not otherwise attributed to a specific author in this corpus.