Zritel

Reading notes

• Antosha Ch.'s Advertisement Office §1 The Spectator

  Зритель ("The Spectator"), a short-lived Moscow satirical-illustrated biweekly of 1881-82 for which the young Chekhov wrote some of his earliest squibs under the pen name Antosha Ch.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 December 1882. Moscow. §10 Spectator

  "Zritel" (The Spectator), a Moscow satirical weekly that published Chekhov's early humorous sketches and paid by the line.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 5 January 1883. Moscow. §8 Zritel

  "Zritel" ("The Spectator"), the Moscow satirical biweekly Chekhov contributed to under "Antosha Ch."; here he jokes about a departed secretary at the magazine's office.

• To N. A. Leikin, 12 January 1883. Moscow. §10 The Spectator

  Zritel ("The Spectator"), a short-lived Moscow satirical-illustrated biweekly of 1881-82 for which Chekhov also wrote; its editor, a friend, had made off with an envelope of material Chekhov had prepared for Leikin.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 January 1883. Moscow. §12 The Spectator

  \emph{Zritel} ("The Spectator"), a short-lived Moscow illustrated humor magazine of 1883 that paid its contributors comparatively well and to which Chekhov contributed a number of early sketches.

• To Al. P. Chekhov and A. I. Khrushcheva-Sokolnikova, 3–6 February 1883. Moscow. §4 Zritel

  "Zritel" (The Spectator), a Moscow satirical biweekly that also paid Chekhov by the line and from which he reports having earned about 90 rubles.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 17–18 April 1883. Moscow. §4 ``Zritel''

  "The Spectator," a short-lived Moscow humor magazine Chekhov also wrote for, whose finances and management are described here as shaky.

• To Al. P. Chekhov, 13 May 1883. Moscow. §6 The Spectator

  Zritel ('The Spectator'), a short-lived Moscow satirical biweekly for which the young Chekhov wrote some of his earliest pieces; by 1883 it had folded, which Anton reports with mock-funereal finality.

• Temperaments (According to the Latest Findings of Science) §10 "Zritel"

  Zritel ("The Spectator"), a short-lived Moscow satirical-illustrated biweekly of 1881-82 for which the young Chekhov wrote some of his earliest squibs under the pen name Antosha Ch.