place
Constantinople
also: Константинополь
The Ottoman capital, named as a stop on Chekhov's planned return voyage from Sakhalin toward Odessa. Distinct from, an earlier and unrelated reference to Constantinople as one of several idle daydream destinations in a different letter.
Reading notes
- Notebooks. Diaries §445 Constantinople dogs
The Ottoman capital (Istanbul); its famously large population of ownerless street dogs was a stock feature of nineteenth-century Russian travel writing, which is the cliche Chekhov is mocking here.