Oryol

Reading notes

• The Alarm Clock's Calendar §209 Oryol

  A provincial capital and, notably, the birthplace of Turgenev and Leskov; the calendar's joke is that "nothing will occur" there beyond the ordinary.

• To M. P. Chekhova, 3 April 1887. Orel. §1 Orel

  A provincial capital roughly 200 miles south of Moscow, an overnight stop on Chekhov's route to the south.

• In One's Own Corner §64 Oryol province

  A province in central European Russia, well north of the Donbas steppe setting of the story; the laborer's origin there marks him as an itinerant worker far from home, with no family tie left to draw him back.

• Live Merchandise §205 Oryol

  A provincial capital in central Russia, birthplace of Turgenev and Leskov; here just the location of the small rented estate Bugrov briefly occupies.