Notes

1. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Polnoe sobrame sochinenij i pisem v tridtsati tomakh [Complete collected works and letters in thirty volumes] (Moscow: Nauka, 1974–1982), I, 153.

2. Teffi was the pseudonym of Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Buchinskaja (1872–1952). Her piece was entitled, “Paskhal’nye sovety molodym khozjajkam” [Easter advice to young housewives]. See also Darra Goldstein, A la Russe: A Cookbook of Russian Hospitality (New York: Random House, 1983), 124. For a brief description of Teffi’s work, see Handbook of Russian Literature, ed. Victor Terras (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), 465.