place

Sorochintsy

also: Сорочинцы, Sorochintsy, Velyki Sorochyntsi

A village in Poltava province, Ukraine, made famous by Gogol (setting of "The Fair at Sorochyntsi" and site of Gogol's own baptism); Chekhov passed through it on his June 1888 trip through Poltava province.

Reading notes

To A. S. Lazarev, 26 June 1888. Sumy. §5 I have lately been traveling through Poltava province. I was in Sorochintsy.
Sorochintsy, a village in Poltava province made famous by Gogol (setting of "The Fair at Sorochyntsi"); part of the same June 1888 trip through the region that Chekhov describes at greater length in his 21 June 1888 letter to Leikin.
To A. I. Smagin, 21 November 1891. Moscow. §8 M. Sorochintsy
"М. Сорочинцы" -- Malye Sorochintsy (Little Sorochintsy), in Poltava province, near the estate under negotiation with Smagin; not to be confused with the larger, Gogol-associated Sorochintsy (made famous by "The Fair at Sorochyntsi") in the same district, though the two share a name and region. Reused here for the general place entity given the corpus's existing entry, with the "Malye" qualifier preserved in-text.
To A. S. Suvorin, 22 November 1891. Moscow. §4 Next to Sorochintsy
Sorochintsy, a Poltava-province village famous chiefly as a Gogol setting ("The Fair at Sorochyntsi") and Gogol's own birthplace/baptism site; Chekhov had passed through the district on his June 1888 trip and is now, in late 1891, examining a nearby property for possible purchase through the same Smagin family connection.
To A. I. Smagin, 11 December 1891. Moscow. §7 Can it really be that I shall live in Sorochintsy, or nearby?
Sorochintsy, the Poltava-province village near Smagin's own estate and the district where the family's khutor purchase had been under negotiation through the companion November 1891 Smagin letters; here Chekhov muses, half-disbelieving, on the prospect of actually coming to live there himself.
To S. A. Andreyevsky, 25 December 1891. Moscow. §4 Sorochintsy
The Poltava-province village, Gogol's birthplace, first attested in this corpus at during Chekhov's June 1888 trip through the region. Here it is the destination for Chekhov's own planned permanent relocation as of late 1891 -- a plan not in fact carried out; he would settle at Melikhovo the following spring instead. Andreyevsky's bound books are among the keepsakes packed in the trunk awaiting that move.
To the Chekhovs, 31 December 1891. Petersburg. §4 Sorochintsy farmstead
The first of the two farmstead candidates near Sorochintsy under negotiation through Alexander Ivanovich Smagin across the letters of November-December 1891 -- see especially (settling on a specific property), and//. Here Chekhov reports the first telegram's verdict: a beautiful setting and good orchard undercut by an old, cramped house needing 1500 rubles of repairs and a forty-verst haul to the nearest station -- discouraging enough that Masha appears to be abandoning it in favor of the Yatsenko farmstead reported in the same section.
To K. S. Barantsevich, 15 April 1890. Moscow. §3 Sorochintsy Fair
"На Сорочинской ярмарке" -- a real, famous seasonal trade fair held at Sorochintsy (Great Sorochyntsi), a village in Poltava province, Ukraine; already established in this corpus as the setting of Chekhov's own June 1888 Poltava trip (/454). The phrase also carries a literary echo: Sorochintsy is the setting of Nikolai Gogol's early story "The Fair at Sorochyntsi" ("Сорочинская ярмарка," 1831), a byword in Russian for a large, colorful, chaotic country market -- Chekhov's readers would hear both the real fair and the Gogolian association in the phrase. See the corresponding entry in authors/chekhov/.