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Russkaya Mysl

Russian Thought

also: Русская Мысль, Russian Thought

A serious Moscow monthly "thick journal" of literature, politics, and scholarship (founded 1880), here parodied by having it turn up, absurdly, in the possession of a district police officer.

Reading notes

To M. M. Dyukovsky, April 1886. Moscow. §4 Russkaya Mysl
A serious Moscow monthly "thick journal" of literature, politics, and scholarship, founded in 1880. Chekhov's closing aside -- asking Dyukovsky not to be angry "about Russkaya Mysl" -- alludes to some unspecified friction between the two men or with the journal itself, left unexplained in this brief note but part of Chekhov's ongoing, sometimes prickly dealings with its editors in this period.
To N. A. Leikin, 30 July 1886. Babkino. §9 "Russkaya Mysl'"
"Russkaya Mysl'" ("Russian Thought"), a serious Moscow monthly of literature, politics, and scholarship; its favorable notice of Chekhov's book is soon followed, in this same letter, by an invitation to contribute.
To N. A. Leikin, 20 August 1886. Babkino. §8 "Russkaya Mysl'"
"Russkaya Mysl'" ("Russian Thought"), a serious Moscow monthly of literature, politics, and scholarship; the invitation to contribute mentioned here follows its favorable notice of Chekhov's book reported to Leikin a few weeks earlier.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 10–12 October 1887. Moscow. §8 Russkaya Mysl
A serious Moscow "thick journal" of literature and scholarship; one of several periodicals courting Chekhov's work at this period as his reputation rose.
To I. L. Leontyev, 4 February 1888. Moscow. §7 "Russkaya Mysl" ... "Severny Vestnik," to "Sever"
Three Moscow/St. Petersburg literary periodicals Chekhov names as ready markets for the rejected "Saturday piece": the monthly "Russkaya Mysl," the "thick journal" "Severny Vestnik," and the illustrated weekly "Sever."
To A. N. Maslov, 29 March 1888. Moscow. §3 "Russkaya Mysl"
"Russian Thought," a serious Moscow monthly "thick journal" of literature, politics, and scholarship; the errand Bezhetsky had asked Chekhov to run was to sound out its editors about his own work.
To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 27 August 1888. Sumy. §8 Russkaya Mysl
The Moscow "thick journal"; Chekhov's outburst here is a bitter forecast of the pretension and sanctimony he expects from it and its circle, sharpened by his personal dealings with its editorial side.
To A. S. Suvorin, 5–6 October 1888. Moscow. §4 As for "Russkaya Mysl," the people who sit there aren't men of letters at all, but smoked whitefish, who understand as much about literature as a pig does about oranges
SENSITIVITY: Chekhov's acid literary insult against the editorial staff of the rival Moscow journal Russkaya Mysl ("Russian Thought"), continued in the "wild duck"/"tame duck" simile and the closing "I'm furious at 'Russkaya Mysl' and at the whole of literary Moscow!" Translated faithfully and not softened -- this is Chekhov's characteristic period sharp-tongued wit directed at an institution and its unnamed staff (the review section, he notes, "is run by a lady"), not a claim about any identifiable individual, and does not require softening.
To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 2 January 1889. Moscow. §9 That he is drawn to \"Russkaya Mysl\" is so natural and understandable!
The Moscow literary journal that published Korolenko's early work and his books, as Chekhov notes in the same breath.
To A. M. Yevreinova, 7 September 1889. Moscow. §6 "Russkaya Mysl" will abuse it,
"Русская мысль", a rival Moscow "thick journal" of literature and scholarship; Chekhov predicts, with wry confidence, that it will attack the new story on its appearance.
To V. M. Sobolevsky, 7 October 1891. Moscow. §10 'Novoye Vremya,' 'Russkaya Mysl,' 'Novosti,' 'Vestnik Yevropy,' and so on
The other major Moscow and Petersburg periodicals Suvorin names as prospective participants in the pre-publication scheme: Russkaya Mysl ("Russian Thought"), a serious Moscow "thick journal" of literature and scholarship; Novosti (properly "Novosti i Birzhevaya Gazeta," "News and Stock Exchange Gazette"), a Petersburg daily edited by Osip Notovich; and Vestnik Yevropy ("The Herald of Europe"), a leading Petersburg literary-political monthly. Suvorin's plan depends on this whole tier of major periodicals agreeing to the same double-fee, pre-publication arrangement.
To A. S. Suvorin, 13 October 1891. Moscow. §9 Russkaya Mysl will not agree, because it is dreaming of a Sbornik of its own
Russkaya Mysl ("Russian Thought"), the serious Moscow "thick journal" earlier named among Suvorin's list of prospective participating periodicals in (\S10); Chekhov's unofficial aside here reports that it is unlikely to cooperate because its own editorial board is contemplating a rival famine-relief Sbornik of its own.
To Ye. P. Yegorov, 29 January 1892. Moscow. §3 "Russkaya Mysl"
Russkaya Mysl ("Russian Thought"), the serious Moscow "thick journal" of literature, politics, and scholarship (founded 1880); here named as an institutional donor of 25 rubles to the famine-relief subscription Chekhov was administering through sheet No. 28. Transliteration follows the corpus's established convention for this journal, as fixed at and.
Notebooks. Diaries §4059 Russkaya Mysl
Russkaya Mysl ("Russian Thought"), the substantial Moscow monthly journal, edited in part by Lavrov and Goltsev, that published a number of Chekhov's major later stories.