place
Palkin's
also: у Палкина, Palkina
Famous, expensive Petersburg restaurant, named as where provincial zemstvo deputies dined lavishly on the public purse in "Correct Actions."
Reading notes
- Without a Position §12 Palkin's
A famous, expensive Petersburg restaurant; that Shmakovich runs up a 76-rouble bill there at his supposed benefactor's expense turns the visit into a small extortion.
- To M. P. Chekhov, 16 March 1888. Petersburg. §13 Palkin's
A well-known, expensive Petersburg restaurant.
- To I. L. Leontyev, 18 July 1888. Feodosia. §4 Palkin's
A famous, expensive Petersburg restaurant; Chekhov's simile likens abstaining from talk with Suvorin to sitting at Palkin's and not drinking -- both framed as near-impossible feats of restraint.