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Mount Elbrus
Elbrus
also: Эльборус, Эльбрус
The highest peak in the Caucasus, named by the imprisoned lawyer as one of the summits he has 'climbed' only through the books sent to him during his fifteen years of solitary confinement, in "The Bet."
Reading notes
- The Bet §38 Elbrus and Mont Blanc
The prisoner pairs the highest peaks of the Caucasus and the Alps as emblems of the whole physical world he has experienced only through books during his confinement.
- To M. V. Kiseleva, 3 December 1889. Moscow. §4 the summit of Elbrus, and I
Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in the Caucasus, invoked in Chekhov's mock-grandiose joke that only it and he himself are "unattainable heights" in Russia -- an ironic boast about his fame, not a literal claim.