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Brozhenie umov (The Fermenting of Minds)
The Fermenting of Minds
also: Брожение умов, The Fermenting of Minds
A comic piece in Oskolki, edited by Leikin, featuring the police chief Akim Danilych; Chekhov objected that an editorial insertion blaming a riot on a flock of starlings undercut the humor's original point, since the town governor character would never admit to so trivial a cause.
Reading notes
- To N. A. Leikin, 17 June 1884. Moscow. §14 The Fermenting of Minds
A comic piece running in Oskolki in which Leikin had inserted a line Chekhov felt spoiled the joke -- an early instance of Chekhov policing the fidelity of his and others' published texts even in matters of editorial phrasing.