The Hermitage Garden (Moscow)

Reading notes

• A Little Something §6 the Hermitage

  A fashionable Moscow summer pleasure garden with an open-air theater, famous for lavish costume spectacles under its manager Mikhail Lentovsky -- the setting shared by all three of this piece's panels.

• A Little Something §2 Hermitage Gardens

  A fashionable Moscow summer pleasure garden with restaurants, theater, and a pond, a favorite setting for Chekhov's early comic sketches of high-society scandal.

• A Woman Without Prejudices §15 the Hermitage

  A fashionable Moscow pleasure garden and restaurant, a byword for expensive entertaining — the friend's blackmail demand names it precisely because it is costly.