Moskovsky Listok

Reading notes

• Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) §907 everything except reading the "Moskovsky Listok"

  A backhanded joke: the popular, downmarket Moskovsky Listok newspaper is treated as so dull that reading it aboard the horse-tram is exempted from the general ban on causing a disturbance.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 8 November 1882. Moscow. §4 Moskovsky Listok

  A popular, downmarket Moscow daily newspaper that owed Alexander a small fee, evidently for a piece he had placed there.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 January 1883. Moscow. §7 Moskovsky Listok

  A popular Moscow daily newspaper known for society gossip and local-color reporting, here the source of the item about the Pushkaryov ball.

• To A. N. Kanayev, 26 March 1883. Moscow. §9 Moskovsky Listok

  The popular, downmarket Moscow daily newspaper, invoked here as an unflattering point of comparison for the actors' lack of "inward gentlemanliness."

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 17–18 April 1883. Moscow. §2 Moskovsky Listok

  A Moscow daily newspaper of a sensational, lowbrow cast; Chekhov credits it as the source of the joke in his opening greeting.

• To N. A. Leikin, 27 June 1883. Voskresensk. §4 the Moskovsky Listok

  A popular, downmarket Moscow daily newspaper known for lurid local-crime and tavern-brawl reporting -- the low company Chekhov implies Pazukhin keeps as a writer.

• To N. A. Leikin, 25 December 1883. Moscow. §10 Moskovsky Listok

  A popular, downmarket Moscow daily newspaper edited by Pastukhov, whose Christmas number carried Chekhov's surname without his consent.

• To N. A. Leikin, 23 December 1884. Moscow. §7 "Moscow Listok"

  Moskovsky Listok, a widely read (and journalistically disreputable) Moscow daily newspaper published by Pastukhov.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 11 March 1889. Moscow. §4 "Moskovsky Listok"

  The downmarket Moscow daily newspaper Pastukhov published; Chekhov names it and its proprietor together as standing literary enemies who "abuse me on every convenient and inconvenient occasion," while noting drily that Pastukhov "pays well."

• A Nervous Breakdown §45 the \emph{Listok}

  The cheap, downmarket Moskovsky Listok ("Moscow Sheet"), a real daily newspaper of the period; the detail that this particular lackey is absorbed in his paper and pays the arriving customers no attention at all is part of the story's running motif of the ordinary, undramatic humanity of the brothels' male staff, which Vasilyev fixates on as a substitute for the human connection the women themselves refuse or cannot offer him.