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Syn Otechestva
also: Сын отечества, Son of the Fatherland
Syn Otechestva ('Son of the Fatherland'), a long-running Russian periodical founded in 1812, another of the now-defunct papers Ivan Nikitich claims once to have written for.
Reading notes
- Ferment of Minds §8 Son of the Fatherland
A long-running Russian periodical founded in 1812; Optimov is introduced as one of its old-time provincial correspondents.
- The Correspondent §47 Syn Otechestva
\emph{Syn Otechestva} ('Son of the Fatherland'), a long-running Russian periodical (founded 1812) through several changes of editorship and politics -- another grand old title Ivan Nikitich name-drops among his supposed credits.
- The Sheet §11 The Son of the Fatherland
A long-running Russian periodical founded in 1812; invoked here purely as a byword for age, comparing the ancient doorman to something venerably old.
- To I. L. Leontyev, 15 April 1888. Moscow. §7 the prose of "The Son of the Fatherland"
Syn Otechestva ("Son of the Fatherland"), a long-running Russian periodical; Chekhov's joke compares the cheapness of food in Ukraine favorably to the (implicitly dry or unappetizing) prose published in this journal.