“In Paris Things Don’t Happen So Quickly”
Journal: Cornell University Press eBooks
Year: 2025

This chapter follows the emotional turmoil of Lidia Mizinova, Lidia Yavorskaya, and Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik in the spring of 1894. It reveals how Mizinova, while traveling to Paris, imagines Anton Chekhov relaxing in sunny Crimea surrounded by letters from other women, though in reality he feels bored and overwhelmed by the demands of his writing. It also describes a flirtatious poem Shchepkina-Kupernik sent to Chekhov and a desperate letter from Yavorskaya about a family crisis related to h