place
Raybuzh
also: Райбуж, село Райбуж
The village, opposite its church, where Dyudya keeps his house and tavern and where the story's frame action takes place.
Reading notes
- Peasant Women §1 Raybuzh
An invented village name (not a real place on the map), typical of Chekhov's practice of setting these frame-tales in unspecified, generic Russian villages.