To L. S. Mizinova, July 1891. Bogimovo.

A very short mock-proposal note, datelined only "June-July 1891. Bogimovo" (no exact day recovered), to Lidia (Lika) Stakhievna Mizinova, the family friend and object of Chekhov’s long, unresolved half-flirtation, who was a frequent guest at Bogimovo that summer alongside the Chekhovs (cf., both also datelined "June-July 1891. Bogimovo" to the same addressee). Confirmed against the source as a single coherent six-section document – dateline, salutation, the joke proposal itself, a two-line comic signature block, and a postscript

The whole note is a burlesque marriage proposal: Chekhov declares his passionate, tiger-like love and formally offers his hand, then signs not with his own name but with an invented mock-noble title, "Chief of the Mongrels, Golovin-Rtishchev" – a comic pseudo-aristocratic surname built to sound like a real gentry name while sending up the pretensions of a formal suitor. The postscript undercuts the gallantry entirely, instructing Lika to answer "in mime" and teasing that she is cross-eyed – the kind of blunt, affectionate joke typical of Chekhov’s correspondence with Mizinova, where florid sentiment and deflating banter run in the same breath.