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Old Years (Старые годы)
"Old Years"
also: Старые годы, Starye Gody
A play by the playwright Ippolit Shpazhinsky, reviewed in Suvorin's "Novoye Vremya": first praised, then -- by the time of this letter -- panned, a reversal Chekhov notes dryly to Suvorin ("You gave 'The Old Years' a scolding. But earlier you had praised it.").