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Monte Carlo
also: Монте-Карло
The casino district of the Principality of Monaco, on the French Riviera, reached by Chekhov's party on 13 (25) April 1891 as the next leg after Nice (announced in's closing line "I am going to Monaco"). Chekhov describes an evening at the roulette tables -- a run of winning and losing, ladies losing thousands, tables heaped with gold, a wry comparison of the resort to a "den of thieves," and gamblers' suicides said to be commonplace -- and returns to the same tables with Suvorin fils two days later in.
Reading notes
- To the Chekhovs, April 1891. Monte Carlo. §1 Monte Carlo
The famous casino district of the Principality of Monaco, on the French Riviera; the destination announced two days before, at the close of ("I am going to Monaco"), and reached here. Chekhov writes the dateline from inside the casino itself (\S3: "from the very place where they play roulette").
- Notebooks. Diaries §70 Monte Carlo
The casino resort on the Cote d'Azur, then part of the Principality of Monaco; Chekhov visited its roulette tables during his 1891 European tour and returned to gamble there on later trips (see \S4096).