place
Yakimanka
A street and old merchant district south of the Moscow River, across from the Kremlin.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 21 February 1886. Moscow. §13 Yakimanka, Klimenkov's house
Chekhov gives his return address in lieu of a signature block: a rented flat in the Klimenkov house on Yakimanka street, an old merchant district on the south bank of the Moscow River across from the Kremlin, where the large Chekhov family was then living.
- To N. P. Chekhov, March 1886. Moscow. §19 It is not enough to hire a cab and drive off to Yakimanka
Yakimanka, a street and district south of the Moscow River across from the Kremlin, was associated in this period with taverns and casual prostitution; Chekhov uses trips there and back as shorthand for Nikolai's pattern of dissolute escapes that offer no lasting change -- a motif repeated at \S21.
- Vanka §5 Yakimanka
A street and district south of the Moscow River, across from the Kremlin -- an old merchant quarter, the cab's destination.