place
N...sky District Court
the district court
also: N...ский окружной суд
An anonymized provincial Russian district court, the standard Imperial-era venue for criminal trials, used here (per the period convention of blanking out real place names with an initial) as the setting for the sketch.
Reading notes
- A Case from Judicial Practice §1 N...sky district court
An anonymized provincial court name -- the period convention (also used by Gogol and others) of blanking a real place to a bare initial, signaling that the scene is any district court, everywhere.