place
Dead Creek
also: Дохлая Речка, Dokhlaya Rechka
The comic, unflattering invented name (literally "Dead/Croaked Creek") of the dacha settlement where Ivan Ivanych summers, fitting the story's mock-heroic tone about the miseries of suburban cottage life.
Reading notes
- A Tragedian in Spite of Himself §35 Dead Creek
"Дохлая речка" -- literally "Dead/Croaked Creek," a comic, unflattering invented dacha-settlement name in keeping with the piece's mock-heroic tone about suburban cottage life. The same place name appears as Ivan Ivanych's dacha settlement in "One of Many" (1887), the story this play closely reworks; entity reused rather than duplicated.