concept
St. Peter's Day
also: Petrov den, Петров день, 29 June (Old Style)
The feast of Saints Peter and Paul, 29 June Old Style, which in Imperial Russia traditionally marked the opening of the summer hunting season -- the occasion and title of this story.
Reading notes
- St. Peter's Day §1 the 29th of June
St. Peter's Day (Petrov den), the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Old Style 29 June -- a fixed date on the Russian calendar that traditionally opened the summer hunting season, giving the story its title.
- To N. A. Leikin, 25 June 1883. Moscow. §7 "St. Peter's Day"
"Petrov den'" ("St. Peter's Day"), an early Chekhov story named for the feast of Saints Peter and Paul that traditionally opened the Russian hunting season; he reports it ran too long for the humor-magazine format and set it aside rather than cut it.