Russkiye Vedomosti

Reading notes

• To N. A. Leikin, 30 July 1886. Babkino. §8 "Russkiye Vedomosti"

  A major liberal Moscow daily; Chekhov is weighing whether to pay for an advertisement of his book there, depending on how sales go into autumn.

• To F. O. Shekhtel, 12–16 September 1886. Moscow. §4 Русских ведомостях

  Russkiye Vedomosti ("The Russian Gazette") was a major liberal Moscow daily; suggesting that Gilyarovsky's address could be tracked down there reflects his day job as a working newspaperman well known around the Moscow press.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 5 January 1883. Moscow. §6 Russkiye Vedomosti

  "Russkiye Vedomosti" ("Russian Gazette"), a major liberal Moscow daily founded in 1863, which the family will subscribe to from February in place of the banned "Kuryer".

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 10–12 October 1887. Moscow. §8 Russkie Vedomosti

  A major liberal Moscow daily; Chekhov cites its per-line rate as a benchmark against which he weighs his own pay.

• Ivan Leontyevich Leontyev (Shcheglov), February 28, 1888. Moscow. §5 the crowd from "Russkiye Vedomosti"

  Russkiye Vedomosti, the major liberal Moscow daily; Chekhov has volunteered Shcheglov and Barantsevich as prospective contributors without first asking their leave.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 4 March 1888. Moskva". §4 "Russkie Vedomosti"

  Russkiye Vedomosti, the major liberal Moscow daily; Chekhov here follows through on the invitation to Barantsevich he had volunteered without leave in his earlier letter to Shcheglov.

• To K. S. Barantsevich, 27 March 1888. Moscow. §5 "Russkie Vedomosti"

  The liberal Moscow daily to which Chekhov directs Barantsevich to address his story -- the same invitation Chekhov had extended on the paper's behalf in his letter to Barantsevich of 4 March 1888.

• To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 31 March 1888. Moscow. §16 Russkie Vedomosti

  Moscow daily newspaper ("Russian Gazette") in which Aristarkhov's criticism appeared.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 11 March 1889. Moscow. §8 "Russkie Vedomosti"

  The Moscow liberal daily "Russian Gazette," already established elsewhere in this corpus, here the source of the classified advertisement Chekhov transcribes and mocks for comic effect.

• To V. M. Sobolevsky, 7 October 1891. Moscow. §4 the editorial board of the "Russkiye Vedomosti"

  Russkiye Vedomosti ("The Russian Gazette"), the major liberal Moscow daily edited by Vasily Sobolevsky, the addressee of Chekhov's covering letter. By October 1891 the paper had undertaken to publish a charitable "Miscellany" (Sbornik) of new literary work to raise money for victims of that year's famine -- the project Suvorin's letter proposes to help fund.

• To V. M. Sobolevsky, 7 October 1891. Moscow. §10 the initiative of the editorial board of 'Russkiye Vedomosti,' which has taken upon itself all the trouble and all the risk of the publication

  Suvorin's verbal elaboration, as relayed by Chekhov, credits Russkiye Vedomosti with having originated and assumed full financial risk for the Miscellany project, framing his own proposal as a way for other papers to support that initiative materially rather than compete with it.

• To A. I. Smagin, 1891. Moscow. §3 They write that a resolution has come down among them not to send by cash-on-delivery, for reasons set out in the letter.

  The Russkiye Vedomosti editorial board -- which had undertaken the famine-relief Sbornik (section 3 below) -- had apparently adopted a blanket policy against shipping items \textit{nalozhennym platyozhom} ("cash-on-delivery," i.e. collecting payment from the recipient upon delivery rather than in advance), a bureaucratic snag that here delays getting Smagin his copy of the Miscellany; Chekhov personally intervenes, offering to stand surety and even post a deposit so the rule will be waived in Smagin's case.

• To Ye. P. Yegorov, 26 December 1891. Moscow. §4 то я мог бы обратиться в редакцию "Русских ведомостей", чтобы они выслали хотя бы 100--200 р.

  Having just reported the Sbornik's success, Chekhov proposes tapping the same paper's editorial office again -- this time not for the literary fund but directly, for a further 100 to 200 rubles earmarked for Yegorov's district relief -- provided Yegorov answers promptly with the state of his affairs and formally authorizes Chekhov to act on his behalf. The conditional phrasing ("if you would answer... and authorize me") underscores how much of this fundraising relationship has been stalled by Yegorov's silence, a frustration Chekhov voices more directly earlier in the same letter (\S3).

• To Ye. P. Yegorov, 6 February 1892. Voronezh. §6 "Russkiye Vedomosti"

  The liberal Moscow daily to which Chekhov contributed a public account of famine conditions in Nizhny Novgorod and Voronezh provinces, continuing the journalistic dimension of his relief work alongside the private correspondence, subscription bookkeeping, and travel recorded in the letters to Yegorov.