place
Zamoskvorechye
also: Замоскворецкий пер., Zamoskvoretsky Lane
Moscow's old merchant quarter "beyond the Moskva River," across from the Kremlin; solidly bourgeois, unglamorous territory, fitting for a cook's posting.
Reading notes
- Unclean Tragedians and Leprous Playwrights §16 Zamoskvorechye
Moscow's old merchant quarter across the river from the Kremlin -- solid, unfashionable, bourgeois territory, invoked here as the imagined audience whose wives are meant to dream of devils.
- A Cook Wanted §1 Zamoskvoretsky Lane
A lane in Zamoskvorechye ("beyond the Moskva River"), Moscow's old merchant quarter across from the Kremlin -- unglamorous, solidly bourgeois territory, fitting for a cook's posting.
- To M. M. Chekhov, 16 April 1878. Taganrog. §11 Zamoskvorechye
Moscow's old merchant quarter across the Moskva River from the Kremlin, where the address on this envelope -- Gavrilov's house -- was located.