concept

Salon des Varietes

the Salon

also: Salon de Varietes, Соленый вертеп, Salon

A cheap, late-night Moscow pleasure-garden nightclub combining a bar, a stage for cancan and variety acts, and side rooms for casual pickups -- the setting Chekhov's sketch tours scene by scene.

Reading notes

To Al. P. Chekhov, 15–28 October 1883. Moscow. §11 the Salon
A cheap, late-night Moscow pleasure-garden nightclub with a stage for variety acts and side rooms for pickups, one of the haunts Leskov toured with Chekhov.
To D. T. Savelyev, 4 September 1884. Moscow. §8 Salon
The Salon des Varietes, a cheap late-night Moscow pleasure-garden nightclub; Chekhov jokes that, still unmarried, he will be reduced to killing winter evenings there.
Salon de Varietes §1 Salon de Varietes
A cheap late-night pleasure-garden-style nightclub common in Moscow's entertainment district, combining a bar, a stage for cancan and variety turns, and rooms for casual pickups. Chekhov's sketch tours one such establishment scene by scene.