concept
1885 cholera outbreak
cholera epidemic
also: холера
A cholera outbreak spreading through parts of Europe in the mid-1880s, recurring periodically in Russia as well -- ordinary newspaper fare that Grisha's imagination inflates into a vision of the sick being carted off with the dead.
Reading notes
- Psychopaths §10 cholera
A cholera epidemic was spreading through parts of Europe (including a notable outbreak reaching Spain and southern France in 1885) and periodically recurred in Russia through the 1880s -- ordinary newspaper fare that Grisha's imagination turns into a vision of corpses carted off wholesale.