place
the "Lisbon" furnished rooms
the Lisbon
also: "Лиссабон", меблированные комнаты "Лиссабон"
A Moscow furnished-rooms house called the "Lisbon," where Olga is in service as a maid in Chekhov's discarded draft chapters connected to "Peasants," given in this corpus's "Unfinished [Schulz]" file; distinct from the city of Lisbon, Portugal.
Reading notes
- Unfinished [Schulz] §17 the “Lisbon”
A Moscow furnished-rooms house (meblirovannye komnaty) named the "Lisbon," where Olga works; such houses, named after foreign cities as a mark of gentility, offered furnished lodging by the room to a working- and lower-middle-class clientele. Not to be confused with the city of Lisbon, Portugal.