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Kum pozharny (Godfather the Fireman)
Godfather the Fireman
also: Кум пожарный
A play by Nikolai Alexandrovich Leikin, stalled at Fyodor Korsh's Moscow theatre awaiting a benefit performer to take it up, as Chekhov reports here.
Reading notes
- To N. A. Leikin, 22 December 1888. Moscow. §8 "Godfather the Fireman"
"Кум пожарный," a play by Leikin, stalled at Fyodor Korsh's Moscow theatre awaiting a benefit performer to take it up.
- To N. A. Leikin, 21 February 1889. Moscow. §6 "The Fireman's Godfather"
TITLE VARIANT -- Leikin's play "Пожарный кум," the same work identified as "Godfather the Fireman" in the earlier corpus letter (\S8), where it was reported stalled at Korsh's theatre awaiting a benefit performer. This letter's translator rendered the same Russian title as "The Fireman's Godfather" instead. Same underlying work entity reused across both letters -- no duplicate created -- but the English title rendering is inconsistent between the two translations and should be harmonized in a future apparatus pass (either normalize both to a single English rendering or add a translator's note cross-referencing the variant).
- To N. A. Leikin, 24 February 1889. Moscow. §7 "The Fireman's Godfather"
"Кум пожарного," a play by Leikin; Chekhov here repeats a request, made in an earlier letter, for a copy of it in addition to a book already asked for.