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Budilnik (The Alarm Clock)

The Alarm Clock

also: "Будильника"

The satirical Moscow weekly magazine in which this calendar itself was published, and to whose editorial offices the mock-calendar's replies and letters are addressed throughout.

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Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) §1242 AT THE ALARM CLOCK'S OBSERVATORY
A cosmic mock-review, staged as if the sun, moon, and stars were amateur actors in a play reviewed by "The Alarm Clock" (Budilnik) magazine's astronomers -- an elaborate extended conceit built entirely around describing a solar eclipse as bad theater criticism.
The Alarm Clock's Calendar §65 The Alarm Clock
*Budilnik* ("The Alarm Clock"), the satirical Moscow weekly in which this calendar was published; the calendar addresses its own mock reader-replies to this masthead throughout.
The Liberal §60 Budilnik
The satirical Moscow weekly in which this very sketch appeared; the mock-will jokes that if the departing year cannot properly punctuate its own testament, one of Budilnik's own staff should be conscripted to do it.
My Domostroy §3 Будильник
\textit{Budilnik} ("The Alarm Clock"), the Moscow satirical weekly in which Chekhov himself published many early sketches under pseudonyms -- the fictional wife's placement there is an in-joke about the real periodical market Chekhov worked in.
To N. A. Leikin, 28 April 1885. Moscow. §6 Budilnik
Budilnik ("The Alarm Clock"), a Moscow satirical weekly for which Chekhov also wrote; he explains he has taken a 100-ruble advance from it toward his summer-house expenses and must "work it off" over the following months.
To N. P. and I. P. Chekhov, 28 April 1880. Moscow. §4 "Alarm Clock"
"Budilnik" (The Alarm Clock), a Moscow satirical weekly of caricatures and humor that published young Chekhov-circle artists and writers.
To N. A. Leikin, 1886. Babkino. §12 рецензию в "Будильнике"
Budilnik ("The Alarm Clock"), a Moscow humor-satire weekly; Anton is tracking press notice of his forthcoming story collection "Pestrye rasskazy" ("Motley Tales"), whose publicity campaign he had organized with Leikin's help in the preceding weeks' letters.
To M. V. Kiseleva, 21 September 1886. Moscow. §8 the clerk-girl at "Budilnik"
"Budilnik" ("The Alarm Clock") was a Moscow satirical weekly Chekhov wrote for regularly in the early 1880s; the unnamed clerk at its offices stands in, comically, for the judgment of the literary-journalistic world on Chekhov's shabby, unfashionable dress.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 December 1882. Moscow. §10 Alarm Clock
"Budilnik" (The Alarm Clock), a Moscow satirical magazine Chekhov contributed to; he warns Alexander off it here because of a change in its editorial management.
To N. A. Leikin, 12 January 1883. Moscow. §10 Budilnik
"The Alarm Clock," another Moscow satirical weekly Chekhov wrote for, then under heavy tsarist censorship -- Chekhov notes hundreds of lines being struck from every issue, a sharper constraint than any editor's line count.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 17–18 April 1883. Moscow. §3 ``Budilnik''
"The Alarm Clock," a lesser Moscow humor weekly that had published Chekhov's early work; he now claims to have outgrown it in favor of Oskolki.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 13 May 1883. Moscow. §5 The Alarm Clock
Budilnik ("The Alarm Clock"), a Moscow satirical magazine Chekhov found distasteful to write for by this point, contrasting it unfavorably with the more honestly run Oskolki.
To N. A. Leikin, 25 June 1883. Moscow. §4 the "Budilniki"
Budilnik ("The Alarm Clock"), a Moscow humor magazine that also published Chekhov's early comic pieces; grouped with Strekoza as a journal he professes not to care about, unlike Oskolki.
To N. A. Leikin, 27 June 1883. Voskresensk. §9 "Budilnik"
"The Alarm Clock," the Moscow satirical weekly Kicheev had previously edited, and for which Chekhov's brother Nikolai and Chekhov himself had both done work.
To N. A. Leikin, 6 August 1883. Moscow. §8 Budilnik
"The Alarm Clock," a rival Moscow satirical weekly to which some of the same contributors also submitted work.
To N. A. Leikin, 19 September 1883. Moscow. §6 Budilnik
Budilnik ("The Alarm Clock"), a Moscow satirical weekly that, alongside Oskolki, regularly published Chekhov's early comic sketches.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 15–28 October 1883. Moscow. §6 "The Alarm Clock"
Budilnik, a satirical Moscow weekly of the early 1880s that published a portrait of Popudoglo despite Chekhov's low opinion of his literary talent.
To N. A. Leikin, 25 December 1883. Moscow. §18 Budilnik
"The Alarm Clock," a Moscow satirical weekly of the same older generation of humor journalism as Iskra, cited here as a bygone standard.
To N. A. Leikin, 31 December 1883. Moscow. §8 "Budilnik"
Budilnik ("The Alarm Clock"), the Moscow satirical weekly Chekhov wrote for; he asks that the parcel be addressed to its editorial office rather than to him directly to avoid a post-office trip.
To Ye. I. Yunosheva, 1884. Moscow. §4 The Alarm Clock
Budilnik, a satirical Moscow weekly Chekhov himself wrote for under pen names in these years.
To N. A. Leikin, 23 December 1884. Moscow. §6 "Budilnik"
Budilnik ("The Alarm Clock"), another Moscow satirical weekly that published Chekhov's early sketches; "ten roubles" was evidently its going rate at the time.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 17 January 1887. Moscow. §11 "Budilnik"
The Alarm Clock, a Moscow satirical weekly and another of the comic-press outlets Chekhov wrote for in this period, here the source of a further 20-rouble fee received the same day as the 220-rouble transfer.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 31 January 1887. Moscow. §12 About "Budilnik" I'll find out.
Budilnik ("The Alarm Clock"), the Moscow satirical weekly where Chekhov had published extensively earlier in his career; the clipped, unexplained reference suggests some pending business matter with the magazine that Alexander had evidently raised.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 19–20 February 1887. Moscow. §3 "The Alarm Clock" answered you in the letter-box column
Budilnik ("The Alarm Clock"), a Moscow humor weekly for which both Chekhov brothers wrote; its "letter-box" (почтовый ящик) was a regular column of terse editorial replies to would-be contributors, used here to answer Alexander's submission query in print rather than by private letter.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 22–23 February 1887. Moscow. §8 I'll be at "The Alarm Clock" tomorrow.
Budilnik ("The Alarm Clock"), the Moscow humor weekly for which Chekhov continued to write occasional pieces in this period.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 3 June 1887. Babkino. §11 "Budilnik"
"The Alarm Clock," a satirical Moscow weekly to which Chekhov contributed comic sketches earlier in the decade; he asks Alexander to send in material on his behalf.
To N. A. Leikin, 7 October 1887. Moscow. §5 The Alarm Clock
Budilnik (\"The Alarm Clock\"), a rival Moscow humor magazine that also published Chekhov's early work; Leikin had suggested Chekhov ask its staff to run an advertisement for his book.
To N. A. Leikin, 7 October 1887. Moscow. §6 the Alarm-Clock people
The Budilnik staff, whom Chekhov faults for a tactless jab at him and, more broadly, for a house style of taking cheap liberties with the public and their own contributors.
To A. Ya. Lipskerov, 1 January 1888. Moscow. §3 "Budilnik"
"Budilnik" ("The Alarm Clock"), a Moscow humor magazine and an early outlet for Chekhov's own comic writing, also a regular venue for Lazarev.
Advertisements and Notices §7 "The Alarm Clock"
Budilnik, the real satirical Moscow weekly that published this very piece and many of Chekhov's early comic squibs.
A Fishy Business §12 Budilnik
"Будильник" (The Alarm Clock), the Moscow satirical weekly in which this piece originally appeared, in its summer supplement column "At the Dacha." The narrator refers back to an earlier installment as if it were a serious ongoing scholarly project.
A Toast to the Prose-writers §12 Budilnik
"The Alarm Clock," the Moscow comic weekly whose twentieth anniversary this toast was written to mark; Chekhov, writing as Antosha Chekhonte, had been on its staff since the start of the 1880s.