place
Dukhonino
also: Духонино
A small locality on the road between Moscow and Babkino, offered here as Chekhov's mock-serious alternative route to the Voskresensk road, in a joking aside about avoiding an "ell-long revolver" hazard on the latter; not otherwise glossed in the source.
Reading notes
- To M. V. Kiseleva, 17 February 1889. Moscow. §9 not by way of Voskresensk, but by way of Dukhonino
Voskresensk and Dukhonino are both localities on the road between Moscow and Babkino; Chekhov's mock-serious vow to switch routes, to avoid being shot by an "ell-long revolver," is characteristic hyperbolic joking and not to be read as reporting a real hazard.