place
Kirpichnaya Street
also: Кирпичная улица
The street where Shapkin, now a prosperous notary, owns two houses; Uzelkov walks there to pay his old adversary a visit.
Reading notes
- Old Age §8 Kirpichnaya Street
"Kirpichnaya" means "brick" in Russian -- a plain, workaday street name that underscores Shapkin's solid, unglamorous late-life prosperity (two houses) as against his flamboyant, disreputable youth.