place
Tsitsikar
also: Цицикар, Qiqihar
A city in Manchuria (modern Qiqihar, China); Chebutykin reads aloud from an old newspaper that smallpox is raging there, one of several inconsequential items he collects as a running symptom of his own intellectual idleness.
Reading notes
- Three Sisters §449 Tsitsikar
A city in Manchuria (present-day Qiqihar, China); Chebutykin's deadpan newspaper item about a smallpox outbreak there is another scrap of useless trivia, chosen for how little it could possibly matter to him or his listeners.