place
Teptsov's house
also: дом Тепцова, dom Teptsova
The building on Bronnaya at B. Kozikhinsky Lane, named for its owner/landlord Teptsov, where Chekhov gives his apartment (no. 4) as the return address on this letter to Garin-Vinding.
Reading notes
- To D. V. Garin-Vinding, 13 January 1892. Moscow. §7 Bronnaya, B. Kozikhinsky Lane, Teptsov's house, apt. 4
Chekhov's Moscow return address on the reverse of the letter: the Bronnaya district's B. Kozikhinsky Lane, in a building owned by one Teptsov, apartment 4. This differs from the Malaya Dmitrovka/Firgang's-house address he gives as his own the previous day in the letter to Zankovetskaya (\S8: "Malaya Dmitrovka, Firgang's house") and used earlier that winter; standard biographical accounts place Chekhov on Malaya Dmitrovka through this period, and Bolshoy Kozikhinsky Lane runs through the same immediate neighborhood, so the two addresses likely name the same residence by different nearby landmarks rather than a move -- but the corpus does not yet resolve this, and no other letter in hand uses the Bronnaya/Kozikhinsky/Teptsov form.