place
Novocherkassk
also: Новочеркасск
The capital of the Don Cossack Host region, where Alexander Ivanych was baptized into Orthodoxy and where he hopes to secure a position in a parish school through the interest of his godfather.
Reading notes
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 20 April 1887. en route to Novocherkassk. §1 Novocherkassk
The capital of the Don Cossack territory, on Chekhov's route south during the spring 1887 journey to his native Taganrog and the Don Steppe -- travel that soon fed directly into the writing of "The Steppe."