place
Kingdom of Poland
also: Congress Poland, царство Польское
The Congress Kingdom of Poland, the client state in personal union with (later absorbed by) the Russian Empire, where the narrator's fictitious ancestor Ambrosius is said to have lived.
Reading notes
- Peasant Women §9 Kingdom of Poland
The Russian-ruled Congress Kingdom of Poland, a common posting for army conscripts from the Russian interior in this period; Vasya's exile there for his military service sets up the absence during which Matvei Savvich seduces his wife.
- A Letter to a Learned Neighbor §3 Kingdom of Poland
The Congress Kingdom of Poland, the client state (in personal union with, then absorbed by, the Russian Empire) where the narrator's fictitious ancestor Ambrosius is said to have lived.
- Three Sisters §677 the Kingdom of Poland
The rumored destinations for the transferred brigade -- Congress Poland (the Kingdom of Poland, the western part of the Russian Empire bordering Prussia and Austria-Hungary) or Chita in eastern Siberia -- are geographically about as far apart as the empire allowed, and the uncertainty itself compounds the sisters' dread of losing Vershinin and the officers.