place
Senate Square
also: Сенатская площадь
The St. Petersburg square, site of the Decembrist uprising and the Bronze Horseman; named by Chekhov as a hypothetical dream-image of a Petersburg upbringing he never had.
Reading notes
- To D. V. Grigorovich, 12 February 1887. Moscow. §6 the banks of the Neva, Senate Square, massive foundations
Chekhov, a lifelong Muscovite, imagines that a Petersburg childhood would have furnished his dreams with that city's landmarks instead -- part of his argument that dream-imagery is drawn from a person's own remembered geography.