place

Kontorskaya Street

Name: Chekhov Entire
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

also: Конторская ул, Контoрская улица

A Moscow street Chekhov invokes proverbially for griminess, comparing a slovenly wife's dirty neck-ribbon to it.

Reading notes

To Al. P. Chekhov, 15–28 October 1883. Moscow. §13 Kontorskaya Street
A Moscow street Chekhov invokes proverbially for griminess, comparing it to a dirty ribbon at a slovenly wife's throat.

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