place
Serpukhov
A real provincial town on the Oka River roughly 100 km south of Moscow, invoked for comic mock-journalistic specificity as the place the fugitive "author" is supposedly detained.
Reading notes
- The Guest §7 Serpukhov
A town south of Moscow; Peregarin says he met the staff captain Klyushkin there.
- A Little Something §7 town of Serpukhov
A real provincial town roughly 100 km south of Moscow on the Oka River, invoked here purely for comic mock-journalistic specificity -- as though the fugitive "author" could be tracked down and detained like any ordinary suspect.
- To I. P. Chekhov, 15 May 1891. Aleksin. §6 Serpukhov
Town on the Oka between Moscow and Aleksin; Chekhov warns Ivan against boarding the steamer there, as doing so adds an extra day to the journey -- presumably because the steamer's schedule or route from that point is less direct than continuing by rail or a more direct connection.
- Vanka §18 Serpukhov
A textile-manufacturing town south of Moscow, home to a prosperous merchant class -- the origin of the uncle's rich bride.