place
Voronezh
also: Воронеж
A city on the route between Taganrog and Moscow, home to the Mitrofan Monastery; the mother stopped there overnight en route to venerate the relics of St. Mitrofan.
Reading notes
- To M. Ye. Chekhov, 18 January 1887. Moscow. §8 He is by birth
from Voronezh, where he was
once a teacher at the district school.
Suvorin, like Chekhov's own Taganrog relations, hailed from the Voronezh region of southern Russia; Chekhov notes the shared regional background as the basis for their small talk about Voronezh-province localities.
- To M. P. Chekhova, 20 April 1887. Zverevo. §3 Voronezh
The source text reads "Ворон д" -- an incomplete, garbled fragment (apparent OCR or manuscript damage in the underlying transcription), not a complete Russian word. The translator has rendered it as "Voronezh" based on context: Voronezh lies on a plausible route northeast from the Donets railway toward Novocherkassk and Moscow, and Chekhov is known to have passed through the region on this spring 1887 trip. This is a reconstruction of a damaged source reading, not an invention -- the destination is not otherwise stated in the letter.
- To I. I. Gorbunov-Posadov, 4 September 1891. Moscow. §8 Rossosha, Voronezh province
A market town in Voronezh province, south of Moscow, where Chertkov was based at this period and through which mail for Gorbunov-Posadov was routed.
- To I. I. Gorbunov-Posadov, 17 September 1891. Moscow. §7 Rossosha, Voronezh province
A market town in Voronezh province, south of Moscow, where Chertkov was based at this period and through which mail for Gorbunov-Posadov was routed.