place
Dolgorukovskaya Street
also: Долгоруковская улица
A Moscow street named for the Dolgorukov family, invoked here for its funeral-parlor signboards -- Chekhov teases Anna Ivanovna that her literacy is being wasted reading coffin advertisements there.
Reading notes
- To Al. P. Chekhov and A. I. Khrushcheva-Sokolnikova, 3–6 February 1883. Moscow. §10 Dolgorukovskaya Street
A Moscow street named for the Dolgorukov family, invoked here for its funeral-parlor signboards -- the letter teases Anna Ivanovna that her literacy is being wasted on coffin advertisements.