place
the Don region
Don region
also: Донская область, Донской области
The Don Cossack territory in southern Russia where Count Tulupov claims to own an eight-thousand-desyatina estate rich in coal -- part of the real Donbas coalfield.
Reading notes
- Ivan Matveich §39 Don region
The Don Cossack territory in southern Russia, Ivan Matveich's home; noted here for its comparatively mild, early spring against Moscow's lingering frost.
- The Beauties §2 Don region
The Don Cossack territory in southern Russia through which the narrator and his grandfather travel toward Rostov-on-Don.
- To V. V. Bilibin, 11 March 1886. Moscow. §13 a steppe fire
Steppe fires (grass fires sweeping the open Don-region steppe, often started deliberately to clear old growth or accidentally in dry weather) were a familiar seasonal hazard of the region where Chekhov grew up in Taganrog; the sudden appearance of one furnishes the dramatic close to his boyhood anecdote about the estate steward also named Bilibin.
- Russian Coal §20 Don region
The Don Cossack Host territory in southern Russia, home to the real Donbas coalfields the count claims to own a share of.