Dinershtein, Chekhov i ego izdateli, 93.
L2, 322.
LI, 204.
A. S. Suvorin, Pis'ma A. S. Suvorina, k v.v. Rozanovu, St Petersburg, 1913, 4-5.
L2, 213.
L2, 178.
For further details, see Andrew Durkin, 'Chekhov and the journals of his time', Literary Journals in Imperial Russia, ed. Deborah A. Martinsen, 338-245.
L2, 134-136.
L2, 16.
Gromova-Opul'skaya and Gitovich, Letopis', 252.
L2, 183. This is a slightly loose translation: what Chekhov says literally is that partiinost 'does not love' freedom and the grand scale.
L2, 159.
Perepiska A. P. Chekhova, vol. 1,87.
L2, 35.
Perepiska A. P. Chekhova, vol 1, 80.
L2, 115.
W12, 341.
Yury Bychkov and Marina Orlova, Chekhovy v Melikhove: Semeinyi al'bom, Moscow, 2000, 46.
Wll, 430.
L3, 439.
L3, 238.
V L'vov Rogachevsky, A. P. Chekhov v vospominaniyakh sovremennikov i ego pis'makh, 55.
Oskolki, 45, 4 November 1889, 1.
A. Izmailov, Chekhov, 1860-1904: Biograficheskii ocherk, 417.
L6,498.
W12-13, 361-364.
A. P. Chekhov v vospominaniyakh sovremennikov, 338.
L6, 181.
L6, 183.
Gitovich, Letopis', 429.
L6, 211.
W17, 223.
W13, 371-372.
Oskolki, 43, 26 October 1896, 1.
L6, 555.
L6, 231.
Dnevnik Alekseya Sergeyevicha Suvorma, ed. D. Rayfield and O. Makarova, Moscow, 1999, 302.
L6, 415.
CHAPTER 6
1 V. P. Dunaeva, 'Plavanie A. P. Chekhova na parakhode "Peterburga" (Po materialam fonda "Dobrovol'nogo Flota")', Literaturnoe nasledstvo 87, ed. V. R. Shcherbina, Moscow, 1977, 299.
See David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye> Toward the Busing Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan, De Kalb, Illinois, 2001, 16. All information about Nicholas' 1890-1891 Grand Tour comes from this source.
W14-15, 748.
L6, 253.
L5, 132-133.
L3, 204.
W16, 236-237.
Gromov, 'Chekhov i Przhevalskii', Tvorchestvo A. P. Chekhova, 7.
Again I am indebted to David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye: see his chapter Conquistador imperialism: Nikola Przhevalski' , Toward the Rising Sun, 24-41.
W6,426.
Fridtjof Nansen, Through SiberiaI The Land of the Future, London, 1914.
W4, 31-33.
W14-15, 745-748.
Ch. Darvin, Puteshestvie naturalista na korable 'Bigl", St Petersburg, 1865; cited in N. E. Razumova, Tvorchestvo A. P. Chekhova v asPekte prostranstva, Tomsk, 2001, 35.
L4, 65-68.
George Kennan, Siberia and the Exile System, London, 1891, vol. 1, 77.
L4, 69-97.
L4, 99.
W2, 17.
W4, 101-102.
L4, 117.
L4, 126-127.
See Mark Bassin, Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865, Cambridge, 1999.
W14-15, 45.
W14-15, 54.
W14-15, 65.
John Stephan, Sakhai n: A History, Oxford, 1971, 43.
Wl, 116.
W14-15, 163.
W14-15, 124.
See T. G. Miromanov, 'Ieromonakh Iraklyi', Chekhoi tana: Chekhov i ego okruzhenie, 89-95.
W14-15, 795.
W14-15, 26.
W4, 140.
Benson Bobrick, East of the Sun: The Conquest and Settlement of Siberia, London, 1992, 370.
George Lensen, The Russian Push Towards Japan: Russo-Japanese Relations, 1697-1875, Princeton, 1959, 464.
Izmailov, Chekhov, 1860-1904. Biograficheskii ocherk, 258.
Stephan, Sakhalin, vol.1, 81.
L4, 140.
W7, 339.
L4, 199-200.
L4, 202.
L4, 203-212.
L4, 217.
Raymond de Ponfilly, Guide des russes en France, Paris, 1990, 391.
Conversa ion with M. Kourdukov, administrator of the Church of Sts Nicholas and Alexandra, February 2003.
L4, 220.
L5, 317-326.
Article in New Times, 4 July 1904, cited in Rayfield, Anton Chekhov: A Life, 244.
CHAPTER 7
Lll, 142.
L5, 67.
L7, 21.
A. I. Kuzicheva and E. M. Sakharova, eds., Melikhovskii letopisets, Moscow, 1995, 242.
L7, 14.
L5, 88.
W13, 481^182.
L3, 250.
LI, 167.
L4, 367.
Y. Bychkov, ed., Al'manakh Melikhovo, Tula, 1999, 116.
W13, 69.
L5, 42.
L5, 60, 76.
W10, 58.
Y. Avdeev, V Chekhovskom Melikhove, 3rd rev. edn, Moscow, 1972, 95.
L. Z. Abramenkova, 'Sosed Chekhovykh V N. Semenkovich', Chekhoviana: Melikhovskie trudy i dny, ed. V Lakshin et al., Moscow, 1995,264-271.
L5, 70.
Bychkov and Orlova, Semeinyi al'bom, 41.
L5, 19.
Vokrug Chekhova, 139.
L5, 29.
Vokrug Chekhova, 138.
Vokrug Chekhova, 146.
Kuzicheva and Sakharova, Melikhovsku letopisets, 220.
L5, 193.
Kuzicheva and Sakharova, Melikhovskii letopisets, 162.
Kuzicheva and Sakharova, Melikhovskii letopisets, 180.
Kuzicheva and Sakharova, Melikhovskii letopisets, 47.
Kuzicheva and Sakharova, Melikhovskii letopisets, 121.
W17, 30, 37,46-47, 76, 84, 160.
L*'271.'
L8, 296.
Kuzicheva and Sakharova, Melikhovskii letopisets, 238-239.
Vokrug Chekhova, 293.
L5, 196.
L6, 68.
A. P. Chekhov v vospom^ianiyakh sovremennikov, 370.
L8, 226-227.
L5, 40.
L5, 201.
L6, 78.
L6, 50.
L6, 71; L. Z. Abramenkova, 'Sosed Chekhovykh V N. Semenkovich', 268.
I. S. Ezhov, ed., Pis'ma A. P. Chekhovu ego brata Aleksandra Chekhova, Moscow, 1939, 290, 320, 324.
L7, 7.
L6, 296. On the eve of the 1917 Revolution one of Brom and Quinine's offspring was apparently acquired by the Nabokov family in St Petersburg and named Box II. This dachshund accompanied the Nabokovs into exile and spent his last years in a suburb of Prague. As late as 1930, Nabokov tells us in Speak, Memory, (London, 1969, 40) 'he could be still seen going for reluctant walks with his mistress, waddling far behind in a huff, tremendously old and furious with his long Czech muzzle of wire - an emigre dog in a patched and :ll-fitting coat.' Was Nabokov right in claiming that Box II was the grandson of Brom and Quinine? Perhaps he meant great- grandson, or even great-great-grandson. We do not know whether Saltpetre ever had puppies (let alone with another dachshund), whether Quinine produced any more pedigree puppies, or whether any of them made the journey to Petersburg. It is un'ikely even Quinine's grandchildren were still producing puppies in 1916; Saltpetre, for example, would have been twenty-one. Perhaps Box II was in fact a descendant of Alexander's Saltpetre, if she came from Leikin, as Brom and Quinine had? We shall prooably never know the answer to any of these pressing questions.
Kuzicheva and Sakharova, Melikhovskii letopisets, 173.
L6, 298.
Kuzicheva and Sakharova, Melikhovskii letopisets, 176.
L6, 339.
L6, 33.
L5, 25.
L5, 120.
L5, 296.
L8, 121.
Coope, Doctor Chekhov, 103.
This was the case in Vyatka in 1883. See Coope, Doctor Chekhov, 119.
L8, 299-300.
L5, 100.
A. P. Chekhov v vospominaniyakh sovremennikov, 79.
L5, 339.
L9, 311-312.
W17, 90.
Chekhov cites this famous declaration in a letter sent from Melikhovo on 11 May 1892, in which he proudly announces that he will be offering possibilit.es for croquet that summer: L5, 60.