place
Balagansk
also: Балаганск
A real town in Siberia (Irkutsk Governorate), named here in the letter's stray, deadpan closing line -- likely a private joke or callback to some exchange between Chekhov and Lazarev not otherwise preserved in the correspondence.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Lazarev, 1 November 1889. Moscow. §16 Balagansk
A real town in Siberia (Irkutsk Governorate); the letter's stray, deadpan closing fact, likely a private joke or callback to an exchange between the two men not otherwise preserved here.