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Their friendship lasted for several years, and on account of Suvorin's reactionary opinions, exposed Chekhov to a great deal of criticism in Russia. Chekhov's feelings for Suvorin began to change at the time of the Dreyfus case, but he never broke entirely with him. Suvorin's feelings for Chekhov remained unchanged.
Altogether I have a dreary existence, I am sick of toiling over lines and halfpence, and old age is creeping nearer and nearer. Your last story, in my opinion, shared by Suvorin, is good. Why do you write so little? The zoologist V. A. Wagner, who took his degree with you, is staying in the same courtyard. He is writing a very solid dissertation.
Chekhov was in constant anxiety about the old man's health, as he was very fond of cakes and pastry, and Chekhov's mother used to regale him on them to such an extent that Anton was constantly having to give him medicine. Afterwards Suvorin, the editor of Novoye Vremya, came to stay.
While he was at Nice France was in the throes of the Dreyfus affair. Chekhov began studying the Dreyfus and Zola cases from shorthand notes, and becoming convinced of the innocence of both, wrote a heated letter to Suvorin, which led to a coolness between them. He spent March, 1898, in Paris.
One of the Russian sculptors living in Paris has undertaken to do a bust of Suvorin, and this will keep us till Saturday. ... How are you managing without money? Bear it till Thursday. Imagine my delight. It was a stormy and extremely interesting sitting.
Believe me that if I had needed it, I would have asked you for a loan as readily as Suvorin. God keep you. MOSCOW, February 22, 1892. ... You are mistaken in thinking you were drunk at Shtcheglov's name-day party. You had had a drop, that was all. You danced when they all danced, and your jigitivka on the cabman's box excited nothing but general delight.
The "People's Palace" in Moscow was designed on broad principles; there was to be a library, a reading-room, lecture-rooms, a museum, a theatre. It was proposed to run it by a company of shareholders with a capital of half a million roubles. Owing to various causes in no way connected with Chekhov, this scheme came to nothing. In March he paid a visit to Moscow, where Suvorin was expecting him.
Suvorin was ill with influenza; as a rule when he comes to Moscow we spend whole days together discussing literature, of which he has a wide knowledge; we did the same on this occasion, and in consequence I caught his influenza, was laid up, and had a raging cough. Korolenko was in Moscow, and he found me ill.
Father, as I have written to you already, has thrown up Ivanygortch, and is living with us. Suvorin has been here twice; he talked about you, and caught fish. I am up to my neck in work with Sahalin, and other things no less wearisome and hard labour.
"Humble People" is good, though one could have done without Buhvostov, whose presence brings into the story an element of strain, of tiresomeness and even falsity. Korolenko is a delightful writer. He is loved and with good reason. Apart from all the rest there is sobriety and purity in him. You ask whether I am sorry for Suvorin. Of course I am. He is paying heavily for his mistakes.
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