Chernigov Province

Reading notes

• A Nervous Breakdown §103 Chernigov

  A province of the Russian Empire (in present-day Ukraine); the brunette's flat, unforthcoming answer to Vasilyev's attempt at ordinary conversation -- volunteering nothing beyond the province's name -- is characteristic of the exhausted, transactional disengagement the women show throughout the story, in contrast to the guilty, confiding 'fallen woman' of Vasilyev's literary imagination.

• Live Merchandise §310 Chernigov province

  A province of the Russian Empire (in present-day Ukraine) where Grokholsky owns a small estate, which he later gives to Bugrov to be rid of him a second time.