place
Maksimovka
also: Максимовка
A village near Babkino where the painter Isaac Levitan was lodging and convalescing during the summer of 1885.
Reading notes
- To M. V. Kiseleva, 20 July 1891. Bogimovo. §3 Maksimovka
A village near Babkino where the painter Isaac Levitan lodged during the Chekhovs' Babkino summers (established); Chekhov's memory of walking there with Levitan under just such rain clouds is part of the wave of Babkino nostalgia running through this letter.