To M. Ye. Chekhov, April 1891. Rome.

Part of the well-known 1891 series of travel letters Chekhov sent during his trip through Italy and France; the shortest and plainest of the Roman notes, written from inside the Vatican itself.

writing to his uncle from within the Vatican, where "the Pope of Rome lives," Chekhov notes there are 11,000 rooms in the Vatican and that he has gone through only 30–40 of them and is already worn out. He mentions that St. Peter’s, the famous cathedral, stands right beside the Vatican. He sends greetings from both sites, bows to everyone, and wishes them all well before signing off.

The addressee, given in the dateline as "M. Ye. Chekhov," is Chekhov’s uncle Mitrofan Yegorovich Chekhov, the Taganrog merchant already established in this corpus as (first appearance; also addressee of the neighboring and). Reuse that entity.