place
Kherson
A provincial capital in southern Imperial Russia, named here only via its police board's routine correspondence, the mundane business that keeps interrupting Semipalatov's romantic musing.
Reading notes
- Reading (A Tale of an Old Sparrow) §6 Kherson police board
Kherson, a provincial capital in southern Imperial Russia; the mundane bureaucratic correspondence from its police board is the "prose" that keeps interrupting Semipalatov's romantic reverie.