place
Arkadia
the Arkadia
also: Аркадия
A fashionable open-air pleasure garden and theater in Russian cities in the 1880s, popular for staging operettas and light entertainments.
Reading notes
- The Steed and the Trembling Doe §5 Arkadia
A fashionable Moscow open-air pleasure garden and theater of the 1880s, popular for operettas, light entertainment, and drinking -- a natural stop for a reporter finishing his rounds.
- To F. O. Shekhtel, 1 December 1888. Moscow. §3 Arkadia
"Arkadia" (Russian "Аркадия") is NOT a person -- it is a place name: a well-known Russian pleasure-garden/amusement venue of the type named "Arkadia" in several Russian cities of the period, used the same way elsewhere in the corpus (e.g., "round various Arkadias," of a night of carousing). Here Chekhov cannot say which such place, or whose, has claimed his brother's attention.
- The Death of a Government Clerk §16 the Arkadia
'Аркадия' (Arkadia), a fashionable open-air pleasure garden and theater popular in Russian cities in the 1880s, where operettas and light entertainments were staged -- the setting Chervyakov names as the scene of his fatal sneeze.