place
the Pendraclia
Pendraclia
also: Пендераклия, death-trap
Pyotr Dmitrich's own mock-grandiose name for his light, sharp-prowed dugout canoe (which the guests call, more plainly, the "death-trap"); its cunning, unsteady quickness serves as a running symbol of Pyotr Dmitrich's vanity and physical bravado.