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CHEKHOV, Anton (1860-1904). V sumerkakh: Ocherki i rasskazy. [At Dusk: Essays and short stories]. St Petersburg: A. Suvorin, 1895.
Presentation copy of the eighth edition, rare: no copy appears in current auction records. Chekhov’s inscription marks the memory of his encounter at Yalta with Evgenij Chirikov (1864 – 1932, novelist, dramatist, essayist and publicist, admired by M. Gorky and a correspondent of Chekhov’s), who, by August 1900, had contributed to several major literary journals with impassioned anti-monarchist and pro-populist pieces, and had experienced imprisonment and surveillance. His manifest unease with the radicalism of his revolutionary friends, transparent in his publications, made him a lifelong outsider also amongst them. He would eventually wholly renounce his revolutionary sympathies in the light of the 1917 events, and leave Russia for good, settling in various East-European cities and continuing his work as an emigre. The inscription is dated two years after the construction of White Dacha, Chekhov’s house at Yalta and now a museum dedicated to him. Not in Kilgour or Smirnov-Sokol'skii.
Octavo (169 x 115mm). With half title (very occasional light staining). Contemporary black half sheep, spine lettered in blind, black cloth sides, marbled edges (very light rubbing at extremities). Provenance: author’s presentation 'In memory of Yalta and our meeting, to Evgenij Nikolaevich Chirikov. A Chekhov. 9 Aug 1900.' (inscription on the first half title).
Presentation copy of the eighth edition, rare: no copy appears in current auction records. Chekhov’s inscription marks the memory of his encounter at Yalta with Evgenij Chirikov (1864 – 1932, novelist, dramatist, essayist and publicist, admired by M. Gorky and a correspondent of Chekhov’s), who, by August 1900, had contributed to several major literary journals with impassioned anti-monarchist and pro-populist pieces, and had experienced imprisonment and surveillance. His manifest unease with the radicalism of his revolutionary friends, transparent in his publications, made him a lifelong outsider also amongst them. He would eventually wholly renounce his revolutionary sympathies in the light of the 1917 events, and leave Russia for good, settling in various East-European cities and continuing his work as an emigre. The inscription is dated two years after the construction of White Dacha, Chekhov’s house at Yalta and now a museum dedicated to him. Not in Kilgour or Smirnov-Sokol'skii.
Octavo (169 x 115mm). With half title (very occasional light staining). Contemporary black half sheep, spine lettered in blind, black cloth sides, marbled edges (very light rubbing at extremities). Provenance: author’s presentation 'In memory of Yalta and our meeting, to Evgenij Nikolaevich Chirikov. A Chekhov. 9 Aug 1900.' (inscription on the first half title).
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