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Osy (Wasps)

Osy

also: Осы, Wasps

A rival St. Petersburg humor weekly, its name a pun playing off Oskolki ("Splinters"); Chekhov here relays Lazarev-Gruzinsky's denial that he wrote for it merely to be paid more than in Moscow.

Reading notes

To N. A. Leikin, 21 August 1887. Babkino. §3 "Osy"
"Osy" ("Wasps"), a rival St. Petersburg humor weekly whose name puns on "Oskolki"; Chekhov relays Gruzinsky's denial that he wrote for it merely to be paid more than Moscow editors paid.