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Pravitelstvenny Vestnik (Government Herald)
Government Herald
also: Правительственный вестник, Government Herald
The official gazette of the Russian imperial government, publishing state announcements and decrees alongside occasional literary notices; Chekhov jokes that a favorable review appearing here amounts to quasi-governmental sanction of his writing.
Reading notes
- To M. V. Kiseleva, 28 September 1887. Moscow. §6 "Government Herald" (No. 197)
The official gazette of the imperial government, not normally a venue for literary reviews; a favorable notice there is the premise for Chekhov's joke that his writing now carries something like state sanction.