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The Kiselyovs were musical and cultivated people, and intimate friends of Dargomyzhsky, Tchaykovsky the composer, and the Italian actor Salvini. Madame Kiselyov was passionately fond of fishing, and would spend hours at a time sitting on the river bank with Anton, fishing and talking about literature. She was herself a writer.
You will say all this is unimportant. But lay aside your point of view? and look at it from mine. I await a speedy answer. I have been to the Kiselyovs'. The rooks are already arriving. MOSCOW, March 11, 1891. As I depart for France, Spain, and Italy, I beseech you, oh, Heavens, keep Babkino in good health and prosperity! Yes, Marya Vladimirovna!
Three or four miles from Voskresensk was the estate of a landowner, A. S. Kiselyov, whose wife was the daughter of Begitchev, the director of the Moscow Imperial Theatre. The Chekhovs made the acquaintance of the Kiselyovs, and spent three summers in succession on their estate, Babkino.
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