place

The Sands (Peski)

the Sands

also: Пески, Peski

Peski ("the Sands"), a working-class district of St. Petersburg named for its sandy soil; invoked here as the (mocking, false) site of a claim that the novelist Grigorovich once worked as a caretaker there.

Mentioned in 10 works (11 mentions)

To Al. P. Chekhov, 21 October 1887. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

§8 Peski

To Al. P. Chekhov, 10 November 1887. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

§8 Peski

To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 December 1887. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

§18 Peski

To Al. P. Chekhov, 27 December 1887. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

§12 Peski

To Al. P. Chekhov, 10–11 January 1888. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

§9 Peski

To K. S. Barantsevich, 10 May 1888. Sumy. letter · 1 mention

§7 Peski

To K. S. Barantsevich, 2 December 1888. en route to Petersburg. letter · 1 mention

§8 Peski

To K. S. Barantsevich, 8 December 1888. Petersburg. letter · 1 mention

§8 Peski

To A. S. Suvorin, 17 December 1890. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

§7 the Sands

Notebooks. Diaries Notebooks · 2 mentions