place
Yelets
also: Елец
A town in Oryol province, on the direct rail route south from Moscow, which Chekhov asks whether Suvorin passed through en route to or from Bogimovo; not to be confused with Chekhov's Moscow landlord Yeletsky, whose name derives from the same place.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 4 June 1891. Bogimovo. §7 Were you in Yelets?
A town in Oryol province on the rail route Suvorin had apparently passed through; Chekhov's question opens into a renewed pitch for the Volga-to-Feodosia steamer trip he had proposed in earlier letters of this exchange.