Anton Chekhov

by Donald Rayfield

  Maria i Mikhail Chekhovy, Dom-muzei A. P. Chekhova, 1937 [an inventory of the Yalta house].

  A. P. Chudakov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1987 [for children; excellent on early years].

  E. A. Dinershtein, Chekhov i ego izdateli, 1990 [good on Leikin and Marx, poor on Suvorin].

  *P. P. Filevskii, Ocherki iz proshlogo Taganrogskoi Gimnazii, Taganrog, 1906.

  I. Geizer, Chekhov i meditsina, 1960 [uninformative, except for frontispiece].

  M. Gromov, Chekhov, 1993 [integrated critical and biographical study].

  A. V. Kandidov, A. P. Chekhov v Bogimove, Kaluga, 1991.

  A. V. Khanilo, Pometki na knigakh Chekhova, Berlin, 1994 [supplements Balukhaty, inc. forensic study of Chekhov’s underlinings].

  *Vladimir Knipper, Pora galliutsinatsii, 1995 [a biography of the Knipper-Chekhov descendants].

  V. F. Komissarzhevskaia [ … ] Materialy, Leningrad-Moscow, 1964.

  *A. P. Kuzicheva, Vash Chekhov, 1994 [chronicle of last Melikhovo years, 1895–8].

  L. Maliugin, I. Gitovich, Chekhov: povest’-khronika, 1983 [told as fiction].

  E. Meve, Meditsina v tvorchestve A. P. Chekhova, Kiev, 1989 [uninformative].

  Grigori Moskvich, Putevoditel’ po Kavkazu, SPb, 1911.

  Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, Rozhdenie teatra, 1989 [unexpurgated version of memoirs].

  A. Roskin, Antosha Chekhonte, 1940 [for children, but new archival material on young Chekhov].

  *Vl. Rynkevich, Puteshestvie k domu s mezoninom, Rostov, 1990 [a study of Lika Mizinova].

  P. A. Sapukhin, A. P. Chekhov na Sumshchine, Sumy, 1993 [despite errors, unique material].

  Ilia Sats, Iz zapisnoi knizhki, Moscow-Petrograd, 1923.

  M. Semanova, Chekhov v shkole. Leningrad, 1954.

  Iu. Sobolev, Chekhov, 1934.

  T. L. Sukhorina-Tolstaia, Dnevniki, 1979.

  A. S. Suvorin, Pis’ma A. S. Suvorina k V. V. Rozanovu, SPb, 1913, 10.

  *A. S. Suvorin, Dnevnik, 1992 [reprint of 1923 edition, despite Roskina transcription in RGALI].

  A. S. [Suvorin] Pis’ma russkikh pisatelei k Suvorinu, Leningrad, 1927 [inc. Grigorovich, Leskov, Pleshcheev].

  M. Turovskaia, O. L. Knipper-Chekhova, 1959 [sparse on early years].

  I. P. Viduètskaia, A. P. Chekhov i ego izdatel’ A. F. Marks, 1977.

  Boris Zaitsev, Chekhov, New York, 1954.

  ARTICLES

  L. Z. Abramenkova, ‘Sosed Chekhovykh V. N. Semenkovich’ in Chekhoviana, 1995, 255–64.

  A. Ia. Al’tshuller, ‘A. P. Chekhov i L. B. Iavorskaia’ in Chekhoviana, 1990, 140–51.

  [Semion Bychkov] Kavkazskij kraj, Krasnodar, 1913, No. 145.

  K. A. Chaikovskaia, ‘Melikhovskie pozhary’ in Chekhoviana, 1995, 264–77.

  G. V. Chermenskaia, ‘Ia iskusil … (Chekhov i N. M. Ezhov)’ in Chekhoviana, 1995, 278–314.

  D. M. Evseev, ‘Progulki po chekhovskoi Moskve’ in Chekhoviana, 1993, 244–55 [guide to Moscow buildings associated with Chekhov].

  *N. M. Ezhov, ‘A. P. Chekhov’ in Istoricheskii vestnik, 1909, 11, 595–607.

  N. M. Ezhov, ‘Aleksei Sergeevich Suvorin, Moi vospominaniia o niom, dumy i soobrazhenia’ in Istoricheskii vestnik, SPb, 1915, 1, 110–38.

  A. Goldenveizer, ‘Vstrecha s Chekhovym’ in Teatral’naia zhizn’, 1960, 2, 18.

  *V. Lakshin, ‘Proval’ in Teatr, 1987, 4, 83–91 [on suicide of Suvorin’s son].

  Z. G. Livitskaia, ‘Iz ialtinskogo okruzheniia’ in Chekhovskie chteniia v Ialte, 1993, 129–36 [Kharkeevich, Shapovalov].

  A. S. Melkova, ‘Vesna 1899’ in Chekhovskie chteniia v Ialte, 1993, 121–8 [Ternovskaia, Beaunier].

  E. A. Polotskaia, ‘Ialtinskaia redaktsia “Shutochki”’ in Chekhoviana, 1993.

  N. V. Reformatskaia, ‘Rasskazhi pro diaiu Sashu …’ in Chekhoviana, 1993, 90–8.

  O. Ia. Remez, ‘Vizitnaia kartochka Epikhodova’ in Chekhoviana, 1990, 167–81 [Liubimovka setting].

  *N. A. Roskina, ‘Ob odnoi staroi publikatsii’ in Voprosy literatury, 1968, 6, 250–3; *‘Dnevnik Suvorina …’ in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 15 (1995), 130–73 [on cuts in Suvorin diary].

  *L. M. Sadygi, ‘Chernil’nitsa … Avilova’ in Chekhoviana, 1993, 190–237 [merciless to Avilova].

  *E. M. Sakharova, ‘A. I. Ivanenko’ in Chekhoviana, 1995, 327–34.

  E. M. Sakharova, ‘Vash A. Chekhov …’ in Chekhoviana, 1993, 76–90 [on ‘Uncle’ Sasha Salz].

  *M. Semanova, ‘Teatral’nye vpechatleniia’ in Sbornik statei i materialov, Rostov, 1960, 157–84.

  G. Shaliugin, ‘Ia i moi voennye sputniki’ in Oktiabr’, 1987, 5, 195–201 [on Lt. I. Ia. Schmidt].

  G. Shaliugin, ‘Uchitel’ slovesnosti’ in Chekhoviana, 1990, 124–9 [on Suvorin link with story].

  BOOKS IN ENGLISH

  Ronald Hingley, A New Life of Anton Chekhov, London, 1976.

  Virginia Llewellyn-Smith, Chekhov and the Lady with the Little Dog, Oxford, 1973.

  *Carolina de Maegd-Soëp, Chekhov and Women, Ohio, 1987 [archival research in 1960s].

  Harvey Pitcher, Chekhov’s Leading Lady, Olga Knipper, London, 1979.

  Harvey Pitcher, Lily: An Anglo-Russian Romance, Cromer, 1987.

  *V. S. Pritchett, Chekhov. A Spirit Set Free, London, 1988 [a very perceptive biography].

  OTHER MATERIAL

  *Krym: Putevoditel’, Simferopol, 1914.

  N. M. Kulagin, N. V. Petrov, Moskovskii zoologicheskii sad, 1895 [full catalogue of Moscow zoo].

  R.-D. Kluge, ed., Anton P. Čechov: Werk und Wirkung, Wiesbaden, 1990 (2 vols) [some biography among critiques, in various languages].

  Grigori Moskvich, Putevoditel’ po Kavkazu, SPb, 1911.

  F. S. Stulli, Moia zhenit’ba in Vestnik Evropy, 1885, 10, 571–620; 11, 104–44 [fiction on Taganrog material].

  ARCHIVE MATERIAL (this is a list of only the most fruitful sources)

  MKhaT Moscow Arts Theatre Museum Archive

  OR Manuscript section of Russian State Library

  RGALI Russian State Archive for Literature and Art

  UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS BY ANTON

  OR

  331 70 49 Full text of Anton’s letter to Nikolai March 1886.

  RGALI

  549 1 10 Chekhov’s case notes on Bulychiov, with a commentary (c., 1920) by Dr Rossolimo.

  594 1 269 Full text of Anton’s letter to Aleksandr 2 Jan. 1889.

  MEMOIRS OF ANTON

  RGALI

  189 1 2 Ezhov’s draft Iumoristy 1880ykh godov.

  540 1 382 Zelenenko, Vospominaniia o Taganrogskoi gimnazii typescript.

  549 1 49 Dr Shchurovsky’s notes after examining Chekhov 17 May, 1901.

  549 1 329 A. Lazarev-Gruzinsky [full ms].

  549 1 350 Dr P. G. Rozanov, Chekhov v 80kh godakh.

  549 1 352 El. (Lily) K. Markova-Sakharova.

  549 1 354 N. G. Serpovskii [Babkino].

  549 3 1 Nina Markova.

  860 1 576 M. I. Il’kov, typescript.

  860 1 580 P. I. Messarosh [Taganrog 1870s].

  LETTERS TO ANTON FROM FAMILY (all in Otdel rukopisei, Russian State Library)

  331 32 1–32 Aleksandr’s letters to Anton 1874–1904.

  331 33 50 Georgi Chekhov’s letters to Anton 1888.

  331 33 51 Georgi Chekhov’s letters to Anton 1897.

  331 33 14 Natalia Golden’s letters to Anton 18 Nov. 1888–1904.

  331 33 126 Evgenia’s 20 letters to Anton 1876–1904.

  331 46 33 Anna Ipatieva-Golden’s letter to Anton 25 Sept. 1891.

  331 52 29 Marfa Ivanovna Loboda-Morozova’s letters to Anton, 1881–1902.

  331 62 27 Natalia to Anton, 1885.

  331 81 18 Pavel’s letters to Anton 1876–8.

  331 81 20 Pavel’s letters to Anton 1879.

  331 81 21 Pavel’s letters to Anton 1886–95.

  331 81 32 Pavel Chekhov’s letter to Anna Ipatieva-Golden.

  331 81 80 Mitrofan’s letters to Anton 1879–94.

  331 82
2 Aleksandr’s letters to Masha 1883–7.

  331 82 10 Anna Sokolnikova’s letters to Aleksandr.

  331 82 12 A. I. Khrushchiova-Sokolnikova, née Aleksandrova, documents.

  331 82 20 Nikolai Chekhov’s letters to Anton 1876–9.

  331 82 21 Nikolai’s letters to Anton 1883–9.

  OTHER CHEKHOV FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE

  OR

  331 31 1 Aleksandr’s letters to his parents from 1874–96.

  331 33 1v Pavel Chekhov, various documents.

  331 33 12a Evgenia’s letter to Aleksandr and Nikolai Chekhov.

  331 33 125 Evgenia’s letters to Pavel Chekhov 1876–90.

  331 34 1 Family letters to Mitrofan Egorovich Chekhov.

  331 73 10 Pavel’s letter to Misha 11 Aug. 1885.

  331 77 10 Olga’s letters to Evgenia Chekhova, 1900–2.

  331 77 13+ Olga’s letters to Masha 1899+.

  331 81 8 Pavel’s notebooks 1880–97.

  331 81 11 Pavel’s letters to his wife and children 1876–90.

  331 81 12 Pavel’s letters to Evgenia 1876, –84, –91.

  331 81 13 Pavel’s letters to Aleksandr Chekhov 1874–94.

  331 81 15–6 Pavel to Nikolai Chekhov 1880–3.

  331 81 24 Pavel’s letters to Maria Chekhova 1885–98.

  331 81 25 Pavel’s letters to Mitrofan and Liudmila, 1876–93.

  331 81 66 Evgenia’s letters to Masha, 1891–1914.

  331 81 71 Mitrofan’s letters to Pavel Chekhov 1876–80.

  331 81 83 Fenichka Dolzhenko’s letter to Evgenia 9 July 1891.

  331 82 2 Aleksandr’s letters to Maria Chekhova 1883–7.

  331 82 4 Aleksandr’s letters to Masha, 1890–8.

  331 82 9 Anna Sokolnikova’s letter to Evgenia Chekhova 20 Jan. 1888.

  331 82 14 Nikolai Chekhov’s letters to his parents 1875–90.

  331 82 15 Nikolai’s letters to Pavel Chekhov 1879–84.

  331 82 16 Nikolai Chekhov’s postcard to Evgenia.

  331 82 17 Nikolai’s letter to Masha, 1887.

  331 82 59–62 Mikhail Chekhov’s letters to Masha 1890–1904.

  331 83 25 Misha’s Chekhov i mangusy.

  331 84 38 Nikolai Aleksandrovich Chekhov’s notebooks.

  331 105 1+ Masha’s letters to Olga.

  RGALI

  2316 2 35 Aleksandr’s The Rubbish Dump [Svalka nechistot].

  2540 1 43 Misha’s letters to his parents, 1888–1901.

  2540 1 47 Aleksandr’s letters to Evgenia, 1892–1906.

  2540 1 49 Mikhail’s letters to Evgenia 1888–1904.

  2540 1 150 Aleksandr’s letters to Ivan Chekhov 1898–1905.

  2540 1 158 Pavel’s letters to Ivan Chekhov 1879–1898.

  2540 1 160 Evgenia’s letters to Ivan 1888–1905.

  2540 1 161 Masha’s letters to Ivan Chekhov 1890–1908.

  2540 1 238–43 [Vania to Sonia].

  2540 1 478 Aleksandr’s letters to Mikhail Chekhov 1883–1904.

  2540 1 483 Masha’s letters to Mikhail Chekhov 1884–1904.

  2540 53 1 Aleksandr’s memoirs.

  5459 1 402 Aleksandr’s letters to Natalia, 1908: 5 Nov.

  LETTERS TO ANTON CHEKHOV FROM FRIENDS (Otdel rukopisei)

  331 35 9 O. and P. Agali’s letters to Anton 1880–1.

  331 36 20 Barantsevich’s letters to Anton 1888–1900.

  331 36 54 A. Bernshtein, 1901–3.

  331 36 72 Emilie Bijon’s letters to Anton 1896–1900.

  331 36 75b Viktor Bilibin’s letters to Anton 1886.

  331 37 64 Semion Bychkov’s letters to Anton 1898–9: 3 Jan. 1899.

  331 38 8 Dr Varavka’s letters to Anton, 1901.

  331 38 14 Olga Vasilieva’s 97 letters to Anton 1898–1904.

  331 42 54 M. M. Diukovsky’s letters to Anton, 1884–93.

  331 43 9 Lt Evgraf Egorov’s letters to Anton Chekhov 1882–92.

  331 43 11 N. Ezhov’s letters to Anton 1890–1904.

  331 46 1a Aleksandr Ivanenko’s letters to Anton 1889–91 28 May 1890.

  331 47 13 K. A. Karatygina’s letters to Anton Chekhov, 1889–1904.

  331 47 45 A S. Kiseliov’s letters to Anton, 1884–1904.

  331 47 48 Maria Kiseliova’s letters to Anton 1886–1900.

  331 48 4 Nadia Kolomnina’s letters to Anton 1896–1900.

  331 48 79a O. P. Kundasova’s letters to Anton 1892–1904.

  331 48 83 Dr P. I. Kurkin’s letters to Anton 1892–1904.

  331 49 42a A. Lazarev-Gruzinsky’s letters to Anton 1887–8.

  331 48 7 Vera Komissarzhevskaia’s letters to Anton Chekhov 1897–1903.

  331 48 27 Korneev’s letters to Anton 1886–1894.

  331 48 47 Piotr Gavriilovich Kravtsov’s letters to Anton, 1879–96.

  331 48 49 Solomon Kramariov’s letters to Anton, 1881, 1904.

  331 49 25 Levitan’s letters to Anton 1885–1900.

  331 49 42a A. Lazarev-Gruzinsky’s letters to Anton 1887–8.

  331 50 1a–m Leikin’s letters to Anton, 1882–1900.

  331 50 6g Leontiev-Shcheglov’s letters to Anton 1890.

  331 50 11 Aleksandra Liosova’s three letters to Anton 1894.

  331 51 12 Klara Mamuna’s letter to Anton.

  331 51 18 N. Maksheev’s letters to Anton 1897–8.

  331 52 2 Lika Mizinova’s letters to Anton 1891–1900.

  331 52 46 Daria Musina-Pushkina’s letters to Anton 1891, 1896–8.

  331 54 50 Liudmila Groupillon-Ozerova’s 8 letters to Anton Chekhov 1896–7.

  331 55 6 Ivan Pavlovsky’s letters to Anton 1894–1904.

  331 55 8 Palmin’s letters to Anton 1883–6.

  331 55 21 Anisim [Onisim] Petrov’s letters to Anton.

  331 56 36 Potapenko’s letters to Anton 1893–1903.

  331 56 38 A. A. Pokhlebina’s letters to Anton 1892–8.

  331 57 24 Rainer Maria Rilke’s letter to Anton.

  331 58 20 Elizaveta Lily: Markova-Sakharova’s letters to Anton, 1885–90.

  331 58 27 P. Svobodin’s letters to Anton 1887–92.

  331 58 29 G. P. Selivanov’s letters to Anton.

  331 58 31 A. L. Selivanova-Krause’s letters to Anton 1887–95.

  331 59 2 Lily Glassby’s letters to Anton, 1902.

  331 59 25 Vasili Sobolevsky’s letters to Anton 1892–1904.

  331 59 46 Anna Suvorina’s letters to Anton 1887–1901.

  331 59 71 A. A. Suvorin’s letter to Anton, 1887–92.

  331 59 75 Anastasia Suvorina’s letters to Anton 1889 to, 1900.

  331 59 77b Evgenia Suvorina’s letter to Anton.

  331 60 24 Nadezhda Ternovskaia’s letters to Anton 1899.

  331 60 43 T. Sukhotina-Tolstaia’s letters to Anton 1896–9.

  331 60 62 Anna Turchaninova’s letters to Anton Chekhov 1895 and, 1900.

  331 60 64 Konstantin Tychinkin’s 46 letters to Anton 1896–1902.

  331 61 52 Gavriil Kharchenko’s letters to Anton 1899–1901.

  331 63 3 E. K. Shavrova’s letters to Anton Chekhov, 1889–1900.

  331 63 25a Franz Schechtel’s letters to Anton 1885–6.

  331 63 25e Franz Schechtel’s two letters to Nikolai Chekhov.

  331 64 2 T. L. Shchepkina-Kupernik’s letters to Anton Chekhov 1893–1900.

  331 64 20 Evdokia Efros’s three letters to Anton, 1886.

  331 60 62 Anna Turchaninova’s letters to Anton, 1895, 1900: 20 May, 1900.

  331 64 34 Lidia Iavorskaia’s letters to Anton Chekhov 1893–6.

  331 64 46a Maria Ianova’s letters to Anton of 1885–6.

  331 66 78–124 Telegrams to Olga Knipper July, 1904.

  331 92 56 Adolf Levitan’s letter to Masha.

  OTHER CORRESPONDENCE

  MKhaT

  (Sanin) 5323 L. S. Mizinova-Sanina’s letters to Lidia Iurgeneva.

  5323/19 S. M. Ioganson’s diary, book 5, 1895–7.

  5323/44–62 Sanin’s letters to Lika, 1903: 16 May.

  5323/, 1
933– L. S. Mizinova’s letters to Lidia Iurgeneva and Sofia

  1973 Ioganson, 1877–99.

  OR

  331 73 3 A. S. Suvorin’s letters to Misha 1890–1902.

  331 81 38 Pavel Chekhov to G. P. Selivanov.

  331 82 25 Nikolai Chekhov’s letter to an unidentified Aleksandr Viktorovich.

  331 93 78–80 Lika Mizinova’s letters to Masha Chekhova 1891–8.

  331 96 37–8 Aleksandr Smagin’s 34 letters to Masha 1888–1929.

  331 95 2 Potapenko’s letters to Masha 1894–5.

  429 3 12 Masha’s letters to Bunin, 1901–3.

  RGALI

  189 1 7, 19 Lazarev-Gruzinsky to Ezhov 1884–91.

  189 1 21 Leikin’s letters to Ezhov 1884–99.

  191 1 2400 A. P. Kolomnin obituaries.

  289 1 16 N. Ezhov’s letters to Leikin 1894–1903.

  289 2 5 N. Ezhov’s letters to Leikin 1889–95.

  459 1 1343 N. Ezhov’s letters to Suvorin 1888–1912.

  459 1 2161 O. P. Kundasova’s letters to A. S. Suvorin 1891–1908.

  459 1 4156 B. A. Suvorin’s letters to his father, Suvorin, 1893–1911.

  459 1 4172 Nastia Suvorina’s letters to her father, Suvorin, 1888–1912.

  459 1 4850 T. Shchepkina-Kupernik’s letters to Suvorin.

  459 1 4617 Aleksandr Chekhov’s letters to A. S. Suvorin 1888–96.

  459 2 14 A. S. Suvorin’s letters to Anna Suvorina.

  459 2 138 A. S. Suvorin, drafts of autobiography.

  459 2 140 (1–7) A. S. Suvorin’s diaries [part].

  459 2 356 A. S. Suvorin’s letters to Anna Ivanovna, 1879–1911.

  459 2 1233 N. Ezhov’s letters to Suvorin 1897–1901.

  459 3 12 Suvorin’s drafts of letters.

  549 1 408 Masha’s letters to Maria Drozdova 1898–1905.

  571 1 344–5 T. Shchepkina-Kupernik’s letters to her father, L. Kupernik.

  571 1 401 T. Shchepkina-Kupernik’s letters to Lidia Iavorskaia, 1915.

  571 1 1137 Masha’s letters to Shchepkina-Kupernik 1894–1951.

  571 1 1204 Lidia Iavorskaia’s letters to Shchepkina-Kupernik, 1893.

  640 1 189 Svobodin’s letters to Lavrov.

  675 2 328 Nina Korsh’s application to join Drama Union, 1924.

  2540 1 143 A. S. Suvorin’s letters to Ivan Chekhov, 1891–2.