place
Daraganovsky Woods
Daraganovsky woods
also: Дарагановскому лесу, Daraganovsky woods
A wood near Babkino, reached by a path across the marsh, recalled by Chekhov among his fondest memories of the 1885 summer at the Kiselev estate.
Reading notes
- To M. V. Kiseleva, 3 December 1889. Moscow. §5 in the Daraganovsky forest
The Daraganovsky woods near Babkino/Voskresensk, used by Chekhov in his sample opening sentence for the hunting story he proposes, drawing on the local geography he and Kiseleva both knew from the Babkino summers.