place
Vedenyapino
also: Веденяпино
The village five versts from Progonnaya with the nearest functioning parish church, whose old priest conducts the opening vigil service; also home to the Khlysts Aglaya is rumored to have secretly joined in her youth. Matvei's cover story after the murder -- that he set out for Vedenyapino and never arrived -- is the fabrication that unravels under the investigator's questioning.