place
Ufa Province
Ufa
also: Уфимская губерния
A province of the Russian Empire in the southern Urals, formally established in 1865; the diarist's imagined 'Pecheneg attack' on it is a historical impossibility played for comic effect.
Reading notes
- Twenty-Six (Excerpts from a Diary) §6 Ufa Province
A province in the Russian Empire's Ural region, administratively established only in 1865 -- centuries after the Pechenegs vanished, deepening the joke of the diarist's essay title.
- Thoughts of a Reader of Newspapers and Journals §1 Ufa province
A province of the Russian Empire in the southern Urals, formally established in 1865.
- A Chip Off the Old Block §14 Ufa province
A province of the Russian Empire in the southern Urals, where Grandfather served after his time in the commissariat -- another posting the narrator implies was marked by corruption.