place
Gryazny Lane
also: Грязный переулок
A street in the unnamed provincial town of T. where Yegor Nikiforovich says he ran into Ivan Nikitich and invited him to the wedding; the name (literally 'Muddy Lane') is a small satirical touch typical of provincial Russian street-naming.
Reading notes
- The Correspondent §28 Gryazny Lane
Literally 'Muddy Lane' (Gryaznyy pereulok) -- a real street name common to many Russian provincial towns, fittingly grimy for the squalid little comedy staged here.