place
Kazan
A major city on the Volga, seat of a provincial governorate and a historic university, some 500 miles east of Moscow.
Reading notes
- Proper Measures §25 Kazan soap
Soap manufactured in Kazan, a major Volga trading city, was a common wholesale grocery-shop staple in provincial Russia -- an unremarkable, everyday brand made comic by the doctor's mock-grand "Towers of Babel" jibe.
- To N. A. Leikin, 6 August 1883. Moscow. §11 Kazan
A major city on the Volga, seat of a provincial governorate and a historic university, some 500 miles east of Moscow.