To M. Ye. Chekhov, 1891. Paris.

Part of the well-known 1891 series of travel letters Chekhov sent during his trip through Italy, Austria, and France; written from Paris near the end of the journey, on Orthodox Easter.

Chekhov writes just after returning from Easter matins at the embassy church in Paris, where he worshipped alongside Greeks and a large crowd of French who did the singing; he notes the church is the size of the Mitrofanovsky (in Taganrog) but was cramped and close. He reports he will be home by Sunday, exchanges the Easter kiss with his uncle in absentia, embraces him, and asks him to pass on greetings to the whole family before signing off.

The addressee, given in the dateline as "M. Ye. Chekhov" per the work’s title metadata, is Chekhov’s uncle Mitrofan Yegorovich Chekhov, the Taganrog merchant already established in this corpus as (first appearance; also addressee of the neighboring, -934, and -942). Reuse that entity.