place
Warsaw
also: Варшава, Варшаве
The Polish city, then within the Russian Empire, where Pruzhina-Pruzhinsky claims to have seen the elaborate method of preparing carp in milk and sour cream that he rhapsodizes over.
Reading notes
- Tears Invisible to the World §18 Warsaw
Then a city of the Russian Empire; the officers' reminiscences of postings in Poland and Warsaw were a stock comic touch in stories about garrison life.
- Sergeant Prishibeyev §9 I served in Warsaw, on the staff
Warsaw, then a garrison city within the Russian Empire's Kingdom of Poland, is Prishibeyev's touchstone for 'real' order and vigilance -- he repeatedly invokes his Warsaw service (and the gendarmes he could summon there) as proof of his qualifications to police the village.