Strekoza

Reading notes

• My Jubilee §2 Dragonfly

  Strekoza ("The Dragonfly"), the St. Petersburg humor magazine where the young Chekhov actually published his first pieces under a pseudonym; here folded into the fictional narrator's catalogue of rejections.

• To N. A. Leikin, 22 March 1885. Moscow. §8 Strekoza

  Strekoza ("The Dragonfly"), a rival Petersburg humor weekly where Chekhov had published his own earliest pieces; invoked here as the competitor whose superior illustrations put Oskolki to shame.

• To N. A. Leikin, 20 September 1886. Moscow. §5 "The Cricket"

  Chekhov's affectionate nickname for Strekoza ("The Dragonfly"), the St. Petersburg humor weekly where he had published his own earliest work; here he reports its subscriber count overtaking its rivals under the Werner brothers' management.

• To N. A. Leikin, 4 June 1883. Voskresensk. §6 Strekoza

  Strekoza ("The Dragonfly"), the St. Petersburg humor magazine where Chekhov published his very first pieces in 1880, working alongside Leikin and I. Grek before a falling-out ended his time there.

• To N. A. Leikin, 25 June 1883. Moscow. §4 the "Strekozy"

  Strekoza ("The Dragonfly"), a St. Petersburg humor magazine that had published some of Chekhov's earliest work; named here as one of the rival outlets he claims indifference toward, in contrast to Oskolki.

• To N. A. Leikin, 27 June 1883. Voskresensk. §5 "Strekoza"

  A St. Petersburg humor and satire weekly, a rival outlet to Oskolki, where Chekhov had published some of his earliest pieces before Leikin drew him more fully into Oskolki's orbit.

• To N. A. Leikin, 6 August 1883. Moscow. §11 Strekoza

  "The Dragonfly," a St. Petersburg humor weekly where Chekhov and several of his circle published their earliest pieces before moving on to Oskolki.

• To N. A. Leikin, 25 December 1883. Moscow. §10 Strekoza Almanac

  A supplement/almanac of the St. Petersburg humor weekly Strekoza, where the young Chekhov placed his earliest pieces.

• To N. A. Leikin, 17 November 1884. Moscow. §12 a dragonfly

  Strekoza ('The Dragonfly'), another humor periodical Chekhov had written for; he urges Leikin to bring Oskolki's art section up at least to that standard.

• To M. P. Chekhov, 16 March 1888. Petersburg. §19 the tear-off calendar of the "Dragonfly"

  A promotional tear-off calendar issued by Strekoza ("The Dragonfly"), the Petersburg humor weekly where the young Chekhov had published his earliest work.

• In the American Style §2 the \emph{Dragonfly}

  Strekoza ('The Dragonfly'), a St. Petersburg humor weekly where the young Chekhov placed his earliest pieces; its reader mailbox column briskly rejected or mocked failed submissions, hence the narrator's boast that he is spared its tears.

• Over Some Apples §1 The Dragonfly

  A St. Petersburg humor weekly (Russian: Strekoza) where the young Chekhov himself published; the joke of a boorish squire reading it adds a wink at the story's own venue.