place
Konotop
also: Конотопе
A town in Chernigov province, Ukraine, chosen for the joke about a false Hamlet -- possibly echoing Gogol's satirical story "The Fair at Sorochyntsi"-style provincial absurdity associated with the region.
Reading notes
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §27 Konotop
A town in Chernigov province, Ukraine; the calendar imagines an impostor there posing as Shakespeare's Hamlet.