place
Volga
the Volga
also: Волга
Russia's great river, into which the hero of one of Zinzaga's half-remembered novels supposedly drowns himself.
Reading notes
- The Bride §143 Volga
The great river down which Sasha travels for his health after his last visit with Nadya, falling seriously ill at Saratov along the way.
- To N. A. Leikin, 20–21 May 1884. Moscow. §6 the Volga
Russia's principal river; Palmin vaguely proposes a trip down it as an alternative to Petersburg, which Chekhov doubts he will actually take.
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 23 February 1888. Moscow. §3 A trip on the Volga
The restorative river excursion that Chekhov, Korolenko, and others had been urging on Pleshcheev through this stretch of letters; Chekhov continues pressing the plan here as a cure for Pleshcheev's reported bronchitis and exhaustion.
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 6 March 1888. Moscow. §8 the Volga
A planned trip along the Volga that Chekhov and Pleshcheev had discussed in earlier letters of this run.
- To V. G. Korolenko, 9 April 1888. Moscow. §4 the Volga
Russia's great river; Chekhov's closing greeting personifies it as a nod to Korolenko's riverside home in Nizhny Novgorod.
- Artists' Wives §18 the Volga
Russia's great river, into which the hero of one of Zinzaga's imaginary novels supposedly throws himself -- another absurd detail in his overwrought, half-remembered plots.