place

New Athos

also: Новый Афон, Novy Afon

A coastal town in Abkhazia on the Black Sea, home to the New Athos Monastery, visited by Chekhov during his July 1888 journey along the Caucasus coast.

Reading notes

The Duel §653 New Athos
A monastery settlement on the Caucasian coast, one of the places Laevsky considers fleeing to by boat if his plans in town collapse.
To Al. P. Chekhov, 24 July 1888. Parokhod "Yunona". §13 I spent the night in the monastery of "New Athos,"
"New Athos" (Novy Afon) is a Black Sea coastal monastery in Abkhazia founded by Russian monks in the 1870s -- not to be confused with the original Mount Athos in Greece, which Chekhov is not visiting on this trip.
To F. Ya. Dolzhenko, 28 July 1888. Tiflis. §3 an icon from Novy Afon
A devotional gift bought at the New Athos (Novy Afon) monastery on the Black Sea coast, which Chekhov had visited a few days earlier on this same Caucasus journey.
To A. S. Suvorin, 14 February 1889. Moscow. §7 New Athos
The Orthodox monastery on the Black Sea coast near Sukhumi, in Abkhazia, founded with imperial patronage in the 1870s-80s and already known to Chekhov from his July 1888 Caucasus journey.