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Mogilev Province
Mogilev province
also: Могилевская губерния, Mogilyov province
A province of the Russian Empire's Pale of Settlement (present-day eastern Belarus), the home region of Alexander Ivanych's family, which he left as a boy and has not seen in six years by the time of the story -- distinct from the Bessarabian town of Mogilev-on-Dniester.
Reading notes
- The Darling §34 Mogilev province
A province in what is now eastern Belarus that Pustovalov travels to every year to buy timber -- one of the many details of the timber trade Olenka absorbs as her own.