place
Valaam
also: Валаам
An island monastery in Lake Ladoga, a well-known nineteenth-century pilgrimage and steamship-excursion destination in northern Russia.
Reading notes
- To N. A. Leikin, 27 May 1886. Babkino. §19 Валаама
Valaam, an island monastery in Lake Ladoga in northern Russia, a well-known 19th-century pilgrimage and steamship-excursion destination; Chekhov had floated a possible trip there at least two years earlier and continues to weigh it against his writing output and finances.
- To N. A. Leikin, 20–21 May 1884. Moscow. §6 Valaam
An island monastery in Lake Ladoga, a popular pilgrimage and steamship-excursion destination for nineteenth-century Russians; Chekhov proposes it as a lure to get the reluctant Palmin traveling north.
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 3 June 1887. Babkino. §8 Valaam
A monastery island in Lake Ladoga, reached by excursion steamer from Petersburg, floated here as an optional side trip if Alexander comes to see Chekhov off or greet him at the station.
- To N. A. Leikin, 22 May 1889. Sumy. §9 Valaam
An island monastery in Lake Ladoga, a well-known nineteenth-century pilgrimage and steamship-excursion destination in northern Russia; asked here only as an idle question about Leikin's own travels, with no further significance in this letter.