place
Romny
also: Ромны
A town in Poltava province on the rail line back toward Sumy, where Chekhov waited for a connecting train for seven hours the night he learned of Nikolai's death, killing time by wandering the town and overhearing actors rehearsing a melodrama.
Reading notes
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 26 June 1889. Sumy. §4 At Romny I waited from seven
in the evening until two at night.
A town in Poltava province on the rail route back to Sumy; newly catalogued for this letter as the site of Chekhov's long, eerie overnight wait for a connecting train the night he learned of his brother's death.