Novoye Vremya (New Times)

Reading notes

• The Alarm Clock's Calendar §208 Novoye Vremya

  One of the most influential Russian newspapers of the era, later edited by Chekhov's patron Aleksei Suvorin; imagining two stock stage-swindlers running it is a jab at its editorial reputation.

• Pictures from the Recent Past §69 Novoye Vremya

  Novoye Vremya ("New Times") was one of the most widely read Russian newspapers of the era; a citizen's letter to its editors going conveniently missing suggests deliberate interception rather than ordinary postal failure.

• To V. V. Bilibin, 18 January 1886. Moscow. §31 "Novoye Vremya"

  Novoye Vremya ("New Times") was one of Russia's most influential and widely read Petersburg dailies; an invitation to write for it marked a major step up from the comic weeklies like Oskolki, and Chekhov -- still bound by loyalty and habit to his first editor -- asks Bilibin to keep the news from Leikin for the time being.

• To M. M. Dyukovsky, 17 February 1886. Moscow. §6 Novoye Vremya

  Suvorin's influential Petersburg daily; Chekhov had just begun contributing to it (his first piece, "The Huntsman," appeared there on 26 February 1886), so he is anxiously watching for any editorial notice of his stories.

• To M. M. Dyukovsky, 20 February 1886. Moscow. §2 Суворин назначил мне по 12 коп. за строчку

  This line marks the practical start of Chekhov's association with Suvorin's newspaper Novoye Vremya, which began in earnest in early 1886 and grew into the most important professional and personal relationship of Chekhov's literary career -- Suvorin's paper gave him a national readership, higher pay, and the standing that let him leave behind pseudonymous comic journalism.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 10 May 1886. Moscow. §11 with the five stories placed in "Novoye Vremya," I have raised such an uproar in Petersburg that I have gone quite giddy from it, as from fumes

  By May 1886 Chekhov had begun publishing under his own name in Suvorin's Novoye Vremya, the most prestigious outlet he had yet placed work in; the sudden critical and social reception he describes here -- 'raised such an uproar' -- corresponds to the same wave of recognition, following Grigorovich's letter and his Petersburg visit, that biographers treat as the decisive turn of his early career from newspaper humorist to serious literary figure.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 6 November 1886. Moscow. §5 as a contributor to "New Time"

  Chekhov invokes his own standing as a Novoye Vremya contributor -- a position he had held only since February 1886 -- as the leverage by which he can reasonably ask Suvorin, the paper's publisher, for this favor on Palmin's behalf.

• To S. Kramayev, 8 May 1881. Moscow. §5 Novoye Vremya

  One of the most influential and widely circulated Russian newspapers of the period, later edited by Chekhov's own patron Aleksei Suvorin; its staff are grouped here with Lyutostansky in the letter's antisemitic aside.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 8 January 1887. Moscow. §5 "Novoye Vremya"

  One of the most influential and widely circulated Russian newspapers of the late Imperial period, later edited by Chekhov's patron Aleksei Suvorin; its Petersburg office is where Chekhov's brother is to collect his story fee.

• To N. A. Leikin, 12 January 1887. Moscow. §4 "New Times"

  Novoye Vremya ("New Times"), the influential Petersburg daily edited by Chekhov's patron Aleksei Suvorin, to which Chekhov had begun contributing stories in 1886.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 17 January 1887. Moscow. §13 "Novoye Vremya"

  The major Petersburg daily later edited by Suvorin; Chekhov is asking what kind of work -- staff journalism or genuine creative writing -- Alexander has managed to secure there.

• To M. Ye. Chekhov, 18 January 1887. Moscow. §7 \textit{Novoye Vremya} and \textit{Peterburgskiye Vedomosti}

  Novoye Vremya ("New Times"), the influential Petersburg daily edited by Chekhov's patron Suvorin, and the Sankt-Peterburgskiye Vedomosti ("St. Petersburg Gazette"), another major capital newspaper -- both, per Chekhov, were also giving him press coverage at the end of 1886.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 26 January 1887. Moscow. §5 "Novoye Vremya"

  One of the most influential and widely circulated Russian newspapers of the late Imperial period, later edited by Chekhov's patron Aleksei Suvorin; its office is the fallback destination if Buylov cannot pay.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 28 January 1887. Moscow. §4 Novoye Vremya

  The influential Petersburg daily, edited by Chekhov's patron Suvorin, where Alexander then worked; Anton jokingly tells him not to take a copy home, suspecting he would pocket it rather than pay for it.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 19–20 February 1887. Moscow. §5 my collaboration on "New Times"

  Novoye Vremya ("New Times"), Suvorin's influential and controversial daily newspaper; Chekhov had begun contributing to it in February 1886 and was, by this date, one of its valued literary contributors, a connection that exposed him to criticism from Suvorin's opponents in the literary world, as he complains here.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 19–20 February 1887. Moscow. §10 I have sent a story to "New Times."

  Another reference to Suvorin's Novoye Vremya, to which Chekhov reports having just sent a story -- a small item of professional news appended almost as an afterthought before the letter's close.

• To N. A. Leikin, 30 March 1887. Moscow. §2 Novoye Vremya

  The influential Petersburg daily, edited by Chekhov's patron Aleksei Suvorin, for which Chekhov was writing at this time -- offered here as the excuse for a hurried, businesslike note to Leikin.

• To the Chekhov Family, 25 April 1887. Cherkassk. §8 "Novoye Vremya"

  The influential Petersburg newspaper, edited by Chekhov's patron Aleksei Suvorin, for which Chekhov notes he has plenty of material but no energy to write in the heat.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 16 June 1887. Babkino". §10 "Novoye Vremya"

  The major Petersburg newspaper in which Alexander had just published his first piece; Chekhov's praise-with-criticism response (splendid form, wooden characters, thin plot) is characteristic of his editorial advice to his brother throughout their correspondence.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 26 June 1887. Babkino. §11 Novoye Vremya crowd

  The staff and social circle around the influential Petersburg newspaper Novoye Vremya, to whom Chekhov sends his regards via Alexander, who was then living in Petersburg and associated with the paper.

• To A. S. Lazarev, 27–28 June 1887. Babkino. §5 \textit{Novoye Vremya}

  Novoye Vremya ("New Times"), the major Petersburg daily; Chekhov has Alexei hold a copy so that Lazarev can pick him out at the station -- a running joke about the coachman needing a recognizable prop rather than a description that would actually distinguish him.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 8–12 July 1887. Moscow. §3 "New Times"

  Novoye Vremya, the influential Petersburg daily to which Chekhov had begun regularly selling stories in 1886; its office is where Alexander is asked to check on the fee owed for the story just sent.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, August 1887. Babkino. §3 the Novoye Vremya crowd

  The influential Petersburg daily edited by Alexei Suvorin, to which both Chekhov brothers contributed; "raised you three sazhens in their eyes" (a sazhen is roughly seven feet) is a mock-grandiose measure of the story's success with that circle.

• To N. A. Leikin, 11 August 1887. Babkino. §10 Novoye Vremya

  "New Times," the influential Petersburg daily (later edited by Chekhov's own patron Aleksei Suvorin) in which the announcement of Chekhov's new booklet had appeared.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 3 September 1887. Moscow. §3 the Novoye Vremya office

  One of the most influential and widely circulated Russian newspapers of the late Imperial period, later edited by Chekhov's patron Aleksei Suvorin; its office is where Alexander is to collect Chekhov's fee.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 7–8 September 1887. Moscow. §4 the Novoye Vremya crowd

  Suvorin's influential and politically conservative Petersburg newspaper, where Alexander worked as a proofreader; Chekhov urges him to stay socially engaged with its staff rather than withdraw.

• To M. V. Kiseleva, 28 September 1887. Moscow. §5 "Novoye Vremya"

  "New Times," the influential Petersburg daily edited by Chekhov's patron Aleksei Suvorin; Chekhov reads its praise of him with characteristic ironic detachment, framing his own genius as established fact.

• To Ya. A. Korneyev, 1887. Moscow. §3 Novoye Vremya

  Suvorin's influential Petersburg newspaper, to which Korneyev is apparently about to become a contributor; Chekhov jokes about collecting a drink from him once his first payment arrives.

• To V. G. Korolenko, 17 October 1887. Moscow. §5 "Novoye Vremya"

  Suvorin's influential Petersburg newspaper, the source of the clipping about Thoreau that Chekhov is sending and continuing to save for Korolenko.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 21 October 1887. Moscow. §10 New Times

  Novoye Vremya, Suvorin's paper, where Chekhov was a regular contributor; he notes his affiliation with it as itself a reason the establishment Pushkin Prize would be withheld from him.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 21 October 1887. Moscow. §4 New Times

  Novoye Vremya ("New Times"), the influential Petersburg daily later associated with Chekhov's patron Aleksei Suvorin, to which he had just sent a story.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 29 October 1887. Moscow. §4 "New Time"

  Novoye Vremya ("New Time"), the influential Petersburg daily to which Chekhov was a regular contributor; he hopes the paper will decline to review the Werner brothers' collection rather than expose its poor quality.

• To Ye. A. Sysoyeva, 7 November 1887. Moscow. §4 "Novoye Vremya"

  The influential Petersburg newspaper, edited by Chekhov's patron Aleksei Suvorin, through whose editorial office Sysoyeva's letter had reached him -- an indirect channel rather than a private correspondence between them.

• N. A. Leikin, 27 December 1887. Moscow. §6 "Nov time"

  \textit{Novoye Vremya} ("New Time"), Alexei Suvorin's influential Petersburg daily; Chekhov urges Leikin to advertise his forthcoming book there.

• N. A. Leikin, 27 December 1887. Moscow. §7 "Nov time"

  \textit{Novoye Vremya} again, here as the venue for Shcheglov's Christmas-number story that Chekhov recommends to Leikin.

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 19 January 1888. Moscow. §8 "Novoye Vremya" and the "Peterburgskaya Gazeta"

  Two newspapers Chekhov names as a fallback outlet for quick, paid journalism if "The Steppe" ends up delayed past the March issue -- a reminder that even at this stage he was still supporting himself substantially through newspaper work rather than the "thick journals" alone.

• To G. M. Chekhov, 9 February 1888. Moscow. §11 Novoye Vremya

  "New Times," the influential Petersburg newspaper published by Aleksei Suvorin; its publishing house also ran a retail shop (the "Suvorin's shop" of this line) through which subscriptions and accounts were handled.

• To Ya. P. Polonsky, 22 February 1888. Moscow. §4 "Novoye Vremya"

  Novoye Vremya ("New Times"), the influential Petersburg daily edited by Alexei Suvorin, for which Chekhov mentions beginning a short story.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 24 March 1888. Moscow. §18 "New Time."

  Novoye Vremya, Suvorin's influential newspaper, of whose income Suvorin jokingly promises Chekhov half as a dowry.

• To N. A. Leikin, 29 March 1888. Moscow. §10 "Novom vremeni"

  Novoye Vremya (New Times), the major Petersburg daily in which Chekhov was by this period a regular and prominent contributor.

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 31 March 1888. Moscow. §5 "Novoye Vremya"

  Suvorin's influential Petersburg newspaper; Chekhov defends its absence from Garshin's funeral as innocent -- its staff simply keep late hours -- against Pleshcheyev's suspicion of deliberate slight.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 3 April 1888. Moscow. §10 "New Times"

  Suvorin's Petersburg daily; Chekhov's well-wishing critics had gossiped that he had "left" it, and he means to publish there again to quiet the rumor.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 4 April 1888. Moscow. §3 "New Times"

  Here referring to the retail shop attached to Aleksei Suvorin's Novoye Vremya publishing house in Petersburg, which handled distribution of "In the Twilight" and other Suvorin-published titles.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 15 April 1888. Moscow. §7 take an advance from "New Times"

  Suvorin's Petersburg daily, for which Shcheglov also wrote; Chekhov suggests he draw an advance against future work to fund the trip.

• To I. L. Leontyev, 3 May 1888. Moscow. §4 Tomorrow I finish a story for "Novoye Vremya."

  Suvorin's Petersburg daily, Chekhov's main paying outlet at this period.

• To the Chekhovs, 23 July 1888. Feodosia. §12 "Novoye Vremya"

  The influential Petersburg newspaper edited by Chekhov's patron Aleksei Suvorin; Chekhov asks the household to save back issues from 20 July onward, likely anticipating something of his own or Suvorin's appearing in print.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 24 July 1888. Parokhod "Yunona". §8 the editors can only guess at it

  Referent tracking: "the editors" (редакции) here means the "New Times" editorial staff collectively, of whom Suvorin is the head -- the paper's institutional judgment of Alexander's unstated opinions, distinct from Suvorin's own personal assessment voiced elsewhere in the same section.

• To N. M. Yezhov, 8 August 1888. Sumy. §4 In "Novoye Vremya"

  Suvorin's influential St. Petersburg daily, for which Chekhov was by this time a regular and increasingly prominent contributor; recruiting Lazarev-Gruzinsky would place him in more prestigious company than the humor weeklies.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 29 August 1888. Sumy. §6 "New Times"

  Suvorin's Petersburg daily, where Chekhov had been publishing since 1886; the bulk of this section is Chekhov's unusually candid confession of his own touchiness about money and his reluctance to take a fixed, salaried position on the paper, for fear it would cheapen his friendship with Suvorin into a purely commercial relationship.

• To A. S. Lazarev, 31 August 1888. Sumy. §6 "New Times"

  Novoye Vremya ("New Times"), Suvorin's influential Petersburg daily; Chekhov advises Lazarev to place a few Saturday pieces there before Suvorin considers his book.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 11 September 1888. Moscow. §12 "N. V."

  Chekhov's own shorthand "Н в" for Novoye Vremya ("New Times"), Suvorin's newspaper; rendered "N. V." to preserve his abbreviation rather than silently expanding it, per the headnote.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 5–6 October 1888. Moscow. §2 a steamer called "New Times"

  Chekhov's fantasy of Suvorin relocating his whole operation south includes a steamship named after Suvorin's own newspaper, Novoye Vremya ("New Times") -- a comic extension of the paper's brand rather than a real vessel.

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 10 November 1888. Moscow. §7 This Evgeny styles me a "Novoye Vremya" man

  "Novoye Vremya", the major conservative Petersburg daily Chekhov was then a leading contributor to under his patron Alexei Suvorin; already established in this corpus. Evgeny Garshin's jab plays on Chekhov's close public association with the paper, which Chekhov reads as ironic given Garshin's own suspected motive of currying favor with it.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 11 November 1888. Moscow. §5 then I'll start dashing off pieces for "Novoye Vremya."

  Suvorin's newspaper, already extensively established throughout this corpus's Suvorin correspondence; noted here only as Chekhov's next planned outlet after finishing the Garshin-collection story.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 18 November 1888. Moscow. §3 Besides, I've received my fee from the "Severny Vestnik," and now the sea's only knee-deep to me: I just walk about and think.

  The "Severny Vestnik" ("Northern Herald") is the same St. Petersburg literary journal already established elsewhere in this corpus as one of Chekhov's outlets in this period; here it appears only as the source of a fee just received, with no new detail. (Reused entity id reflects the corpus's existing periodical-entity convention; see the companion Suvorin letters for its fuller establishment.)

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 18 November 1888. Moscow. §2 old "Novoye Vremya"

  Suvorin's newspaper Novoye Vremya, already established throughout this corpus; Chekhov asks Alexander to dig through its old back issues for the Hugo-death speeches.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 2 December 1888. en route to Petersburg. §2 "New Times."

  "Novoye Vremya" ("New Time"/"New Times"), Aleksei Suvorin's influential Petersburg newspaper; Chekhov gives its office as his temporary Petersburg address on this trip.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 8 December 1888. Petersburg. §2 the editorial office's control

  "От редакции" ("the editorial office") is left unnamed in the source. Given Chekhov's business on this Petersburg trip and his use of Suvorin's "New Times" address in the preceding 2 December letter to this same correspondent, it almost certainly refers to Suvorin's editorial office rather than "Oskolki" -- an inference, not a stated fact in the letter itself.

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 2 January 1889. Moscow. §7 There will probably be talk about the collection in \"Novoye Vremya.\"

  Suvorin's Petersburg newspaper, both the outlet expected to discuss the collection here and, via its affiliated shop mentioned later in this same section, the point of the distribution complaint.

• To M. M. Dyukovsky, 7 January 1889. Moscow. §3 "Novoye Vremya"

  Alexei Suvorin's Petersburg newspaper and publishing house, which also ran a Moscow bookshop; already well established elsewhere in this corpus as Chekhov's chief publishing outlet.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 3 February 1889. Moscow. §3 "Novoye Vremya."

  Suvorin's influential Petersburg newspaper, where Chekhov was a regular contributor; Kolomnin managed its business office and shop, both reportedly fully staffed.

• To D. T. Savelyev, 4 February 1889. Moscow. §4 You can learn the details from "Novoye Vremya."

  Suvorin's influential Petersburg daily, which carried a notice of the "Ivanov" premiere's reception; Chekhov points Savelyev to it rather than recounting the details himself.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 2 March 1889. Moscow. §9 "Novoye Vremya"

  Suvorin's Petersburg newspaper, to which Chekhov was a regular contributor at this period.

• To P. A. Sergeyenko, 6 March 1889. Moscow. §4 Novoye Vremya

  Suvorin's Petersburg newspaper, cited here as printing almost no verse at all apart from Fofanov.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 11 March 1889. Moscow. §14 "Novoye Vremya"

  The conservative Petersburg newspaper published by the addressee, Suvorin, himself. Chekhov's sharp criticism here of an unsigned item on servants' wages is directed at his own patron's paper -- a piece of frank, even risky, criticism made to Suvorin's own face, not a third party's publication.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 9 June 1889. Sumy. §9 I congratulate "Novoye Vremya" on its family joy

  An ironic congratulation addressed to the newspaper itself rather than to Kurepin directly, playing on Kurepin's position as a staff figure of Suvorin's "Novoye Vremya."

• To A. S. Suvorin, 23 October 1889. Moscow. §5 "Novoye Vremya."

  Suvorin's Petersburg newspaper, where Chekhov's vaudevilles (the ones "Artist" wants to reprint) originally appeared; Chekhov insists any reprint must carry an attribution note naming the original issue.

• To V. M. Sobolevsky, 7 October 1891. Moscow. §4 first publish it in "Novoye Vremya"

  Novoye Vremya ("New Times"), Suvorin's own influential Petersburg daily, of which Chekhov was by this date the leading outside contributor. Suvorin's scheme turns on using papers like his own as staging grounds: a story runs there first, at double pay, before its proofs and fee are forwarded on to the Miscellany.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 24 October 1891. Moscow. §3 I was in debt to "New Times,"

  Chekhov's regular arrangement with Suvorin's "Novoye Vremya" ("New Times") gave him a standing slot -- effectively a running advance against future copy -- rather than simple per-piece payment. Having drawn on that arrangement, he explains he was obligated to place a given story there rather than sell it to a better-paying "thick journal" (a monthly literary review, which paid more and printed pieces whole rather than serialized), which he presents here as the real, practical reason for a placement his colleagues resented as favoritism.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 28 October 1891. Moscow. §8 Malaya Italyanskaya St., at "Novoye Vremya."

  Malaya Italyanskaya Street in Petersburg was the location of the "Novoye Vremya" offices, where Suvorin could reliably be reached; the address panel names the newspaper itself rather than a private residence, the standard way Chekhov directs mail to Suvorin during his working hours in the capital.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 30 November 1891. Moscow. §5 do at "Novoye Vremya" what I know how to do

  Suvorin's influential Petersburg daily, to which Chekhov was the leading literary contributor through this period; his rare admission of not having "a den" (\textit{берлога}, i.e. no household commitments) in Moscow as the precondition for a Petersburg winter reflects the pull between his family duties in Moscow and his professional and personal closeness to Suvorin's circle.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 30 November 1891. Moscow. §8 There was a wreath from "Novoye Vremya."

  The paper's institutional gesture of respect for Kurepin, tangible evidence of the collegial ties within the Petersburg-Moscow journalistic world Chekhov moved in; Chekhov's aside that it was the largest of six wreaths but not the handsomest is a characteristic touch of wry, unsentimental observation even in reporting a colleague's funeral.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 3 December 1891. Moscow. §10 "Novoye Vremya"

  Suvorin's newspaper, of which he was publisher; the joking suggestion that "Akaky Moskovsky" deserves a staff position there is addressed to Suvorin as the man who could actually make the hire.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 11 December 1891. Moscow. §4 something like a Novoye Vremya Moscow bureau

  Novoye Vremya ("New Times"), Suvorin's Petersburg daily and Chekhov's principal outlet in these years. Chekhov muses here, not quite seriously, about setting up an unofficial one-man Moscow bureau for the paper -- writing every department of a Moscow feuilleton column himself and subcontracting the legwork cheaply -- before flatly ruling out actually moving to Moscow to do it.

• To N. M. Garshina, 10 January 1892. Moscow. §3 Your notice was placed in "Novoye Vremya" at once. Small changes had to be made, but nothing important. Suvorin placed the notice in the form of a dispatch from Moscow.

  A second errand undertaken on Garshina's behalf, distinct from the Medyntseva inquiry of: placing a notice of hers in Suvorin's newspaper Novoye Vremya. Chekhov reports it went in promptly, with only minor edits, framed by Suvorin as a dispatch datelined from Moscow -- a small favor characteristic of the practical services Chekhov routinely performed for Garshina in this period.

• To N. M. Lintvareva, 5 March 1890. Moscow. §3 I have cruelly swindled the Lintvarev family

  The joke turns on a bookkeeping accident, not real wrongdoing. Chekhov had placed a classified notice for the Lintvaryov estate's mill in "Novoye Vremya" and billed Aleksandra Vasilyevna the newspaper's standard public advertising rate of 60 kopecks a line -- six rubles for ten lines. When the paper's own office later billed him only 1 ruble 80 kopecks, presumably extending him a contributor's discount as a regular writer for the paper, he found himself having collected more from the family than the notice actually cost. He casts the resulting 4 ruble 20 kopeck difference as a comic "debt" owed back to them, playing the scene as a mock-confession of embezzlement rather than the trivial accounting overage it actually was.

• To A. S. Lazarev, 13 March 1890. Moscow. §3 за гонораром Вам нужно обращаться не к Суворину, а в контору (Невский, 38)

  Chekhov redirects Lazarev away from Suvorin personally to the newspaper's business office at Nevsky 38 -- the correct administrative channel for fee payments, as opposed to the editorial/personal channel that risks letters simply sitting unattended on Suvorin's desk. This is a recurring piece of practical mentoring in Chekhov's letters to younger Novoye Vremya contributors: know the difference between the paper's business apparatus and its famous editor.

• To A. S. Lazarev, 13 March 1890. Moscow. §3 все сотрудники… получают за первые свои рассказы в "Новом времени" ровным счетом пятак

  The going flat rate for a new contributor's first stories in "Novoye Vremya" was five kopecks per line (a "пятак"), a near-universal rule with rare exceptions -- Chekhov's joke that only Shakespeare and himself are excepted underscores how firmly the rate applies even to a promising young writer like Lazarev. To earn the higher 7-8-kopeck rate for "The Escape", Lazarev would need to build a track record of two or three more stories and submit them together, rather than negotiate a single story up front.

• To Ye. M. Shavrova, 18 January 1891. Petersburg. §3 Novoye Vremya

  Aleksei Suvorin's influential Petersburg daily; Chekhov reports that Shavrova's story has run in its supplement, and in the next line passes along Suvorin's own approval of it.

• To F. A. Kumanin, 11 March 1891. Moscow. §3 New Times

  Novoye Vremya ("New Times"), the influential Petersburg daily edited by Chekhov's patron and close correspondent Alexey Suvorin; the unnamed acquaintance whose story is forwarded here is described as one of its contributors.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 18 August 1891. Bogimovo. §4 the till of "New Times"

  Renders \textit{касса "Нового времени"}, literally the newspaper's cash-box/treasury -- a metonymy for its finances. Chekhov jokes that his own proof-corrections reliably shorten his prose (cutting line-count, and so line-rate costs), so delaying to correct proofs himself in Moscow will save the paper money -- a standing joke about his editorial severity that recurs elsewhere in this correspondence.

• The Zealot §8 Novoye Vremya

  Novoye Vremya ('New Times'), an influential and increasingly conservative Petersburg daily, later edited by Chekhov's own patron Aleksei Suvorin; here the director sneers at it in the very story that shows him betraying his own liberal principles.

• They Abolished It! §118 Novoye Vremya

  "New Times": the major conservative Petersburg daily of the period, read here by the marshal as the source of the (misunderstood) news about official titles.

• In the Railway Carriage §11 Novosti and the Novoye Vremya

  Two real Petersburg newspapers of differing political leanings; that his wife reads them while he prefers 'the Moscow papers' is a small, deniable dig at provincial one-upmanship over which papers are fashionable.

• Notebooks. Diaries §4024 Novoye Vremya's

  Novoye Vremya ("New Time"), the influential and politically conservative Petersburg daily owned by Suvorin, which employed many of the writers Chekhov names in these Petersburg entries; Chekhov published in it for years despite his reservations about some of its staff.

• Live Merchandise §127 Novoye Vremya

  "New Times," one of the most influential and widely circulated Russian newspapers of the period, later edited by Chekhov's own patron Aleksei Suvorin.