place
Kursk
also: Курск
A real provincial city south of Moscow on the rail line toward the south of Russia, named here as the train's destination.
Reading notes
- The Ram and the Young Lady §8 Kursk
A provincial city south of Moscow on the rail line, the young lady's home town and the destination of the free ticket she is requesting.
- The Duel §86 Kursk
A Russian city on the rail line north, glimpsed in Laevsky's imagined journey home from the Caucasus.
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 17 April 1888. Moscow. §4 Kursk
The rail junction on the route Chekhov lays out for Pleshcheyev's journey from Moscow to Sumy, by way of Vorozhba.
- The Dowry §11 Koursk
A provincial city south of Moscow; here it is merely the origin of a necktie sent by a father, a stray detail of daily life overheard through a door.
- The Biggest City §1 Kursk province
A province south of Moscow in the Russian heartland, named here to fix Tim's obscure, unglamorous provincial setting for readers who would never have heard of the town.
- The Mysteries of One Hundred and Forty-Four Catastrophes §61 Kursk
A real provincial city south of Moscow on the rail line toward the south of Russia, named here as the train's destination.
- The Complaints Book §10 Kursk Gymnasium
A classical secondary school (gymnasium) in the provincial city of Kursk, south of Moscow on the rail line; naming his school lends the schoolboy writer a comic air of self-importance.