place
Five-Dogs Lane
also: Пятисобачий переулок
An invented, comically humble Moscow lane-name serving as the story's entire setting -- signaling from the first line the unglamorous, lower-middle-class world of the tale.
Reading notes
- Marriage for Convenience (a novel in two parts) §3 Five-Dogs Lane
Пятисобачий переулок, a comically humble invented Moscow lane-name, signaling from the first line that this is a lower-middle-class, unglamorous setting for the supposedly grand nuptials.