place
Kislovodsk
also: Кисловодск
A fashionable spa town in the North Caucasus, famous for its mineral springs; Chekhov reports he did not visit it on his 1888 journey and repeats travellers' complaints that such resort towns are spoiled by dissipation.
Reading notes
- To N. A. Leikin, 12 August 1888. Sumy. §9 I was not at Kislovodsk
The fashionable North Caucasus spa town; Chekhov did not visit it on this trip and relays other travellers' disparaging reports of the resort circuit generally.
- To Ye. M. Lintvareva, 17 April 1889. Moscow. §6 Kislovodsk
A spa town in the North Caucasus known for its mineral waters, where Chekhov jokingly proposes to set up a medical practice ("a little shop") treating fashionable patients if his brother's condition allows him to leave.
- To N. N. Obolonsky, 17 June 1889. Sumy. §8 Kislovodsk
The Caucasus spa town where Dr. Obolonsky was spending the summer of 1889, already established elsewhere in the corpus.
- Notebooks. Diaries §4031 Kislovodsk
A spa town in the North Caucasus renowned for its mineral springs, a fashionable resort Chekhov visited on this 1896 southern trip and again later.