To L. S. Mizinova, 23 May 1891. Bogimovo.

Written from Bogimovo, the Kaluga Province estate to which the Chekhovs had now relocated for the rest of the summer of 1891 (six days after, sent from the previous address in Aleksin), to Lidia (Lika) Stakhiyevna Mizinova: dateline, header date, a short errand-and-news paragraph, valediction, and signature.

In contrast to the extravagant, performative register Chekhov usually takes with Mizinova (as in), this note is brief and businesslike: he reports, on his sister Masha’s instructions, that she is waiting for a letter from Lika, gives the new postal address (Aleksin, Tula Province – the forwarding town, though the family itself has now moved on to Bogimovo), and notes that they have settled at Bogimovo, recalling that Lika herself had once stood there under the shed roof waiting out a rainstorm. The closing "with respect" is a formal register, unusual for this addressee, and pointed by contrast with the "Golden, mother-of-pearl" apostrophes elsewhere – likely comic understatement rather than genuine distance, consistent with Chekhov’s habit of shifting registers with Mizinova letter to letter.