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Naplyuisk

also: Наплюйск

Chekhov's invented comic garrison-town name (built on the Russian verb naplevat', "not to give a damn"), the setting of the officer's boastful anecdote in "Rasperekanalstvo!!"

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Captions for Drawings Juvenilia · 3 mentions

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