place
Krasnye Vorota
also: Красные ворота, Red Gate
A well-known square and former city gate in Moscow, near which Marya Vasilyevna's family lived in a large apartment when she was a child, in the dimly remembered life described in \textit{In the Cart} before her parents' deaths and her career as a schoolmistress.
Reading notes
- In the Cart §4 near the Krasnye Vorota
Krasnye Vorota ("Red Gate"), a well-known Moscow square and former triumphal gate; naming it situates Marya Vasilyevna's dimly remembered childhood in a comfortable, central Moscow household, sharpening the contrast with her present rural poverty.