Tver

Reading notes

• List of Exhibitors Awarded Cast-Iron Medals in the Russian Section at the Amsterdam Exhibition §3 Educators in Tver

  A provincial city northwest of Moscow, invoked here as a stand-in for provincial schoolteachers dismissive of contemporary literature.

• Sufferers §1 telegram was sent to her mother in Tver

  Telegrams for a family emergency were an expensive, urgent gesture in period Russia, reserved for genuinely alarming news -- the first sign that Lizochka's household is treating her illness (wrongly, as it turns out) as serious.