place
Nikulino
also: Никулино
A village near Babkino where the Chekhov family forded the river by night on their journey out to the dacha in May 1885, an ordeal that nearly ended in Chekhov's drowning.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Kiselev, 8 December 1891. Moscow. §10 I'll donate a thousand to the Nikulino church
Nikulino, a village near Babkino previously mentioned in this corpus as the site of a near-drowning during the Chekhov family's 1885 journey out to the dacha; here it appears as the site of the local parish church to which Chekhov jokingly pledges a share of imagined lottery winnings.