Razvlecheniye

Reading notes

• Thoughts of a Reader of Newspapers and Journals §3 Razvlecheniye

  A long-running Moscow illustrated weekly of light humor and gossip.

• Before the Wedding §3 Razvlechenie

  "Razvlechenie" ("Entertainment"), a popular illustrated humor weekly of the period -- one of the groom's few stated enthusiasms, alongside his own handwriting and squeaky boots.

• To N. A. Leikin, 28 April 1885. Moscow. §6 Razvlechenie

  Razvlecheniye ("Entertainment"), another Moscow humor periodical; Chekhov notes he has not written for it since the New Year, situating it as a fourth outlet among several he juggled in these years.

• To N. A. Leikin, 17 November 1884. Moscow. §8 "Razvlechenie"

  A rival Moscow humor weekly that paid better per line than Oskolki; Chekhov apologizes for placing a story there instead, citing the pressure to support his family.

• To N. A. Leikin, 23 December 1884. Moscow. §6 "Razvlechenie"

  Razvlecheniye ("Entertainment"), a Moscow humor magazine Chekhov contributed to alongside Oskolki and Budilnik during his early comic-writing years.

• To A. S. Lazarev, 22 March 1888. Moscow. §4 you will be spared the need to drag your muse around to "Amusements" and the like

  Razvlecheniye ("Entertainment"), a lesser Moscow humor-and-gossip weekly; Chekhov frames the Petersburg Gazette opening as an escape from placing work with such minor outlets.

• In the American Style §6 \emph{Entertainment}

  Razvlecheniye ('Entertainment'), a long-running Moscow illustrated weekly of light humor and gossip, listed here among papers a proper wife must not read.