place
the Caucasus
also: Кавказ
The mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas, a conventional destination for wealthy Russians prescribed a change of climate or a health cure.
Reading notes
- The Duel §23 Caucasus
The mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas where Laevsky and Nadezhda Fyodorovna have settled, ostensibly to build a simpler, working life.
- The Philanthropist §15 the Caucasus
The mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas, a standard prescribed destination for wealthy Russians seeking a change of climate or a health cure, alongside travel abroad.
- To N. N. Zlatovratsky, 8 August 1888. Sumy. §4 the Caucasus
Chekhov had just returned from a month's travel through the Crimea and the Caucasus; his delay in answering Zlatovratsky's invitation is explained by this trip.
- To D. T. Savelyev, 4 February 1889. Moscow. §6 This summer I was in the Caucasus, but the traipsing around Batum, Tiflis, and Baku wore me out
Recalls Chekhov's July 1888 journey along the Caucasus Black Sea and Caspian coast, tracked earlier in this corpus's 1888 letters (e.g.), reusing the already-established place entities for Batum, Tiflis, Baku, and Rostov rather than treating this as a fresh itinerary.
- To N. A. Leikin, 10 April 1889. Moscow. §7 the Caucasus
The mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas, home to mineral-water spa towns (such as Pyatigorsk and Kislovodsk) popular with the Russian leisured and convalescent classes; Chekhov jokingly imagines himself running a stall there for the spa-going public.
- To F. O. Shekhtel, 19 April 1889. Moscow. §4 Shan't we meet somewhere in the Caucasus?
A summer reunion tied to the possible Kislovodsk trip floated conditionally ("if Nikolai gets better") in §6; Nikolai's condition worsened rather than improved, and he died before any such meeting could take place.