place
Novorossiysk
also: Новороссийск
A Black Sea port city in the Caucasus region where Chekhov's brother Alexander was working as a customs official in the mid-1880s, en route to which he passes through Babkino in this letter.
Reading notes
- The Duel §653 Novorossiysk
A Black Sea port town, another possible destination in Laevsky's contingency plan for a hasty departure.
- Notebooks. Diaries §4031 Novorossiysk
A Black Sea port city in southern Russia, a stop on Chekhov's steamer route from the Caucasus back toward Crimea in 1896.