place
Suchan
also: Сучан
A settlement in Russia's Far East (in the Maritime Province, near present-day Partizansk); Gusev recalls a soldier telling him there a story about a ship striking a large fish and holing its bottom.
Reading notes
- Gusev §4 Suchan
A settlement in the Maritime Province of the Russian Far East (near present-day Partizansk), consistent with the ship's return route from that region; Gusev's fish story, heard from a fellow soldier there, sets the pattern for the story's opening exchange between Gusev's folk credulity and Pavel Ivanych's scorn for it.