To the Chekhovs, 1891. Paris.

A short note of 24 April (6 May) 1891, written from Paris near the end of the famous 1891 European travel series, to the same family addressees as and other letters of the trip. Chekhov reports yet another change of plan: a Russian sculptor working in Paris has undertaken to make a bust of Suvorin, which will keep the party there until Saturday, with departure for Moscow expected by the following Wednesday. He tells the family to hold out without money until Thursday, and describes – with evident relish – attending a stormy session of the Chamber of Deputies at which the Minister of the Interior was pressed to explain the government’s violent suppression of striking workers at Fourmies. He closes with a weary catalogue of Parisian entertainments (strongmen, acrobats, cabarets, restaurant life) that have begun to pall, declares himself eager to get home and back to work, and sends his greetings, signing with his French nickname "Antoine."