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Boriskin
also: Борискин
A local tavern-keeper, or the tavern bearing his name, known to the family from an earlier stay in Anna Ivanovna's town -- invoked here as a nostalgic, half-joking check-in on the neighborhood's fixtures.
Reading notes
- To Al. P. Chekhov and A. I. Khrushcheva-Sokolnikova, 3–6 February 1883. Moscow. §14 Boriskin's tavern
A local tavern-keeper (or his establishment) known to the family from an earlier stay, invoked here as a nostalgic, half-joking check-in on the neighborhood's fixtures.