place
Oreanda
also: Ореанда
A village on the Crimean coast near Yalta, the setting of the story's meditation on the sea's indifference to human life -- the two lovers sit there in silence at dawn, looking down at the water.
Reading notes
- The Lady with the Little Dog §49 Oreanda
A village on the Crimean coast near Yalta; the bench above the sea there is where the story pauses for its meditation on nature's indifference to any one human life.