place
Berdyansk
also: бердянский, Berdyansk
A port town on the Sea of Azov in the Taurida province of southern Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire); Maxim Gorchakov holds burgher (meshchanin) status there, the small-town legal estate typical of petty tradesmen and tenant farmers of the region Chekhov knew from his own Taganrog upbringing.
Reading notes
- The Cossack §1 burgher of Berdyansk
Berdyansk was a port town on the Sea of Azov in Taurida province, in the same southern Russian/Ukrainian steppe region -- near Chekhov's native Taganrog -- that supplies the story's setting; "meshchanin" (burgher) denotes the legal estate of petty townspeople, common among small tenant farmers and tradesmen of the region.
- In One's Own Corner §60 Berdyansk
A port town on the Sea of Azov in Taurida province, southern Ukraine, where the unnamed soldier-laborer served; a real place in the same Azov-steppe region Chekhov drew on elsewhere in his fiction.