place
Razdelnaya Station
Razdelnaya
also: Раздельная, Ст. Раздельная
A railway junction near Odessa where Chekhov wired ahead to his brother Mikhail on 5 December 1890, on the final leg of his return journey home from Sakhalin (via Hong Kong, Singapore, Ceylon, and Odessa), announcing his arrival in Moscow the following Saturday.
Reading notes
- To M. P. Chekhov, 5 December 1890 §1 Ст. Раздельная
This is a TELEGRAM, not a letter -- four lines total (dateline, wire text, editorial marker, and the delivery address as recorded on the telegram form), matching the corpus's confirmed telegram pattern. Razdelnaya Station, a rail junction near Odessa, marks the final leg of Chekhov's journey home: NOT a wire from Sakhalin itself, despite the date's proximity to the Sakhalin trip. He left the island by sea in mid-October 1890, sailed via Hong Kong, Singapore, and Ceylon, and disembarked at Odessa in early December before completing this last stretch to Moscow by rail. This telegram is the companion bookend to the departure wire sent from Vladivostok on 16 October 1890 ("Be in Moscow the tenth of December. Sailing to Singapore.") -- the two together frame the entire return voyage, start to finish.