Vestnik Evropy

Reading notes

• Pictures from the Recent Past §70 issue 41 of the Vestnik

  A missing issue of an outside periodical carrying correspondence from Skopin points to the same pattern: any coverage of the town's affairs, including the bank, is being kept from reaching or leaving Skopin.

• The Naive Wood-Sprite §6 Vestnik Evropy

  The Messenger of Europe (Вестник Европы), a leading liberal Russian monthly journal (1866-1918) known for serious social and scientific articles -- the kind of publication that would run a piece 'on the harm of deforestation.'

• To A. S. Suvorin, 3 November 1888. Moscow. §4 "Vestnik Yevropy" will start picking that summary apart

  "Vestnik Yevropy" ("The Herald of Europe"), a prominent thick journal of the period, invoked here only as a foil to "Severny Vestnik" in Chekhov's satirical chain of scientific faddishness -- the two journals are distinct and must not be conflated, even though named in close proximity.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 30 December 1888. Moscow. §5 on schools, on the peasant, on rational farming, on the \emph{Herald of Europe}

  The liberal Petersburg monthly journal Vestnik Evropy ("The Herald/Messenger of Europe"), named here as one of the causes a young, enthusiastic Russian nobleman throws himself into -- part of Chekhov's inventory of the earnest, soon-exhausted commitments typical of Ivanov's type, not a claim about the journal itself.

• To N. A. Leikin, 22 May 1889. Sumy. §6 Vestnik Evropy

  Vestnik Evropy ("The Messenger/Herald of Europe"), a leading liberal Petersburg monthly; Chekhov names it here as the intended venue for a planned numbered series of short stories under a common title, a project not otherwise mentioned elsewhere in this corpus as consulted so far.

• To A. S. Suvorin, 28 February 1890. Moscow. §3 "Vestnik Yevropy" for 1872, VIII

  \emph{Vestnik Yevropy} ("The Messenger of Europe"), the leading liberal Russian monthly (1866-1918), publisher of serious social, historical, and scientific material; Chekhov is returning a specific 1872 issue (volume VIII) borrowed for his Sakhalin research.

• The Kiss §43 Vestnik Evropy

  Vestnik Evropy (The European Herald) was a serious, liberal Petersburg monthly of politics, history, and literature, read chiefly by the educated middle and professional classes; Merzlyakov's habit of carrying it everywhere and reading it even during Lobytko's beer crisis and Ryabovich's confession marks him as the camp's self-styled rational, literary man, pointedly unmoved by the story's two emotional set-pieces (the beer tirade and the kiss confession) playing out beside him.