place
The Livorno
also: Ливорно, "Ливорно"
A Moscow restaurant/billiard establishment where the self-styled "playwright" breakfasts and later plays billiards on his daily round of drinking and idleness.
Reading notes
- The Playwright §11 "Ливорно"
The Livorno, named here as a breakfast-and-billiards haunt, belongs to the same world of café-restaurants and billiard rooms that supplied Moscow's literary and theatrical bohemia with a daytime alternative to writing -- Chekhov catalogues this milieu elsewhere as a byword for idle, dissipated professional life.
- To A. S. Lazarev, 1 November 1889. Moscow. §5 Livorno
A Moscow restaurant/billiard establishment, used here as the meeting place in Chekhov's sketched alternative plot for the vaudeville.