place
Fastov
also: Фастов
A railway junction in Kiev province where Chekhov wired ahead to his brother Mikhail on 6 December 1890, on the final overland leg of his return journey home from Sakhalin, announcing his arrival in Moscow the following Friday.
Reading notes
- To M. P. Chekhov, 6 December 1890. Fastov. §1 Фастов
This is a TELEGRAM, not a letter -- four lines total (dateline, wire text, editorial marker, and the delivery address as recorded on the telegram form), matching the corpus's confirmed telegram pattern. Fastov, a rail junction in Kiev province, marks the same final overland leg of Chekhov's return from Sakhalin as (5 December 1890, wired from Razdelnaya Station near Odessa): he left the island by sea in mid-October 1890 and disembarked at Odessa in early December before completing this last stretch home by rail. This wire is NOT from Sakhalin itself, despite the trip's proximity in date -- it is a same-week arrival notice sent from partway along the overland leg.