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The Carriage
"The Carriage"
also: Коляска, Kolyaska
Nikolai Gogol's 1836 short story about a provincial landowner's boastful promise of a fine carriage that comes to comic ruin; cited here, with extravagant praise ("worth two hundred thousand rubles"), as Chekhov's chief exhibit for Gogol's artistry, set against his demolition of Goncharov's "Oblomov" in the same letter.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, May 1889. Sumy. §5 His "The Carriage" alone is worth two hundred thousand rubles
Gogol's 1836 story "Kolyaska" ("The Carriage"); newly catalogued in this corpus (first attested here), cited only for Chekhov's extravagant praise, not otherwise elaborated.