institution
Siberian Bank
the Siberian Bank
also: Сибирский банк, Sibirsky Bank
A commercial bank with a branch in Irkutsk where Chekhov inquires about arranging a money transfer for his return journey; he notes he was received there "terribly courteously."
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 27 June 1890. Blagoveshchensk. §9 Sibirsky Bank, where I was received terribly courteously
Chekhov's practical inquiry about arranging a money transfer for a possible return route via America, weighed against Suvorin's telegraphed suggestion of the same. The passage is a rare glimpse of the letter's mundane travel logistics -- carriage losses, money taken by fellow travelers -- set against the surrounding raptures over landscape.