5. Gorky, Literaturnye portrety, p. 204.
6. Viktor Shklovsky, Khod konya. Sbornik statei [Knight’s move: collected articles] (Moscow and Berlin, 1921), pp. 117–118.
7. Viktor Shklovsky in conversation with the author.
8. Quoted in: Semen Pozoiskii, Istoriia otlucheniia L’va Tolstogo ot tserkvi [History of Leo Tolstoy’s excommunication] (Moscow, 1979), p. 82.
9. Lev Tolstoi i russkie tsari [Leo Tolstoy and the Russian tsars] (Moscow, 1995), pp. 106–107.
10. A. Suvorin, Dnevnik [Diary] (Moscow, 1992), p. 316.
11. Boris Eikhenbaum, Moi vremennik. Marshrut v bessmertie [My diary. Route to immortality] (Moscow, 2001), p. 108.
12. Lenin o literature, p. 104.
13. Novoe vremia, November 16, 1910.
14. I. A. Bunin, Sobranie sochinenii [Collected works], in nine volumes, vol. 9 (Moscow, 1967), p. 207.
15. Ibid., p. 63.
16. Literaturnoe nasledstvo [Literary heritage], vol. 72: Gor’kii i Leonid Andreev. Neizdannaia perepiska [Gorky and Leonid Andreyev, unpublished correspondence] (Moscow, 1965), p. 217.
17. A. P. Chekhov, Sobranie sochinenii [Collected works], in twelve volumes, vol. 12 (Moscow, 1957), pp. 49–50.
18. Quoted in: Chekhov i Lev Tolstoi (Moscow, 1980), pp. 144–145.
19. Quoted in: Bunin, Sobranie sochinenii, vol. 9, p. 207.
20. Quoted in: A. Anikst, Teoriia dramy v Rossii ot Pushkina do Chekhova [The theory of drama in Russia from Pushkin to Chekhov] (Moscow, 1972), p. 571.
21. Alexander Blok, Sobranie sochinenii [Collected works], in eight volumes, vol. 8 (Moscow and Leningrad, 1963), p. 281.
22. Osip Mandelstam, Sochineniia [Works], in two volumes, vol. 2 (Moscow, 1990), p. 302.
23. Teatral’naia gazeta, May 28, 1905.
24. Quoted in: I. Vinogradskaia, Zhizn’i tvorchestvo K. S. Stanislavskogo. Letopis’ [Life and works of K. S. Stanislavsky: chronicle], in four volumes, vol. 1 (Moscow, 1971), p. 341.
25. Quoted in: Gorky, Literaturnye portrety, pp. 137–138.
26. V. V. Vorovskii, Estetika. Literatura. Iskusstvo [Aesthetics, literature, art] (Moscow, 1975), pp. 406–407.
27. Ibid., p. 277.
28. Chekhov, Sobranie sochinenii, vol. 12, pp. 318, 308.
29. Quoted in: Russkaia literatura kontsa XIX–nachala XX v., 1901–1907 [Russian literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: 1901–1907] (Moscow, 1971), p. 360.
30. Quoted in: Perepiska A. P. Chekhova [Correspondence of A. P. Chekhov] in two volumes, vol. 2 (Moscow, 1984), p. 356.
31. Sankt-Peterburgskie vedomosti, April 9, 1903.
32. Birzhevye vedomosti, April 6, 1903.
33. Perepiska Chekhova, vol. 2, p. 274.
34. V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, Izbrannye pis’ma [Selected letters], in two volumes, vol. 1 (Moscow, 1979), pp. 318–319.
35. Quoted in: Il’ia Erenburg, Liudi, gody, zhizn’. Vospominaniia [People, years, life: reminiscences], in three volumes, vol. 3 (Moscow, 1990), p. 81.
36. Quoted in: A. Turkov, A. P. Chekhov i ego vremia [A. P. Chekhov and his time] (Moscow, 1980), p. 379.
37. Chekhov, Sobranie sochinenii, vol. 12, p. 557.
38. Quoted in: Turkov, Chekhov, p. 389.
39. Rus’, April 3, 1904.
40. K. S. Stanislavsky, Sobranie sochinenii [Collected works], in eight volumes, vol. 7 (Moscow, 1960), p. 227.
41. Ibid., p. 307.
42. Quoted in: Vinogradskaia, Zhizn’ i tvorchestvo Stanislavskogo, vol. 1, p. 537.
43. Novyi put’, 1 (1904), p. 254.
44. Novosti, March 27, 1905.
