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Khodynka Field
Khodynka
also: Ходынка, Khodynskoye Pole
A vast open field on the western edge of Moscow used for military drills, horse races, and public spectacles; later infamous as the site of the deadly 1896 coronation-day crowd crush.
Reading notes
- At the Wolf-Baiting §5 Khodynka
Khodynka Field, a vast open parade-and-fairground on Moscow's edge used for military exercises, races, and public spectacles -- later the site of the catastrophic 1896 coronation-day crowd crush.
- Notebooks. Diaries §4028 Khodynka
Khodynka Field on the outskirts of Moscow, site of the crush on 18 May 1896 during Nicholas II's coronation festivities in which over a thousand people died; Chekhov visited the victims' graves less than two weeks later.