place
Kronstadt
also: Кронштадт
A fortified naval port on Kotlin Island near St. Petersburg, revealed as the true destination behind the wife's cover story of a health cure in Samara Province.
Reading notes
- Twenty-Six (Excerpts from a Diary) §9 Kronstadt
A fortified naval port on Kotlin Island near St. Petersburg; the diarist realizes with dismay that this, not Samara, is where his clerks -- and his wife -- have really been going.
- Krasnaya Gorka §49 Kronstadt
The fortified naval port on Kotlin Island in the Gulf of Finland, guarding the sea approach to St. Petersburg; the essay locates a literal hill called Krasnaya Gorka near it, home to a telegraph station whose staff, by local custom, married only there.