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Khaldeyevo
An invented, comically bleak-sounding railway station name in the story, echoing "khaldey" (a servant or flunkey).
Reading notes
- In the Carriage §38 Khaldeyevo
An invented, comically bleak-sounding station name (echoing "khaldey," a servant or flunkey) -- part of Chekhov's running joke of absurd station names bracketing the story.