place
Gnilye Vyselki
also: Гнилые Выселки
The comically named summer-cottage settlement (literally "Rotten Hamlet" or "Rotten Outsettlement") where Kozyavkin actually keeps his dacha, four versts away, past the match factory, from the village he mistakenly breaks into.
Reading notes
- The Strays §44 Гнилые Выселки
Gnilye Vyselki (literally "Rotten Hamlet" or "Rotten Outsettlement") is Chekhov's comically unflattering invented name for Kozyavkin's real dacha settlement, four versts away past the match factory -- typical of his habit of naming minor fictional places for a cheap laugh even in throwaway sketches.