place
Zhitomir
also: Житомир
A city in what is now northern Ukraine; Chekhov's closing line has him announcing an imminent, unexplained trip there.
Reading notes
- The Examination for Rank §74 Zhitomir
A city in what is now northern Ukraine, then the seat of Volhynia province; Fendrikov's absurd non-answer ('Route 18, place 121') is the examination's comic low point.
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §162 Zhitomir
A provincial town (present-day Zhytomyr, Ukraine); the calendar jokes that mud there has brought "the movement of minds" to a halt.
- To Yu. I. Lyadova, 18 November 1879. Moscow. §22 Zhitomir
A city in what is now northern Ukraine; the letter's closing line has Anton announcing, without further explanation, that he is about to set off there.
- Spring's Arrival (A Discourse) §9 Zhitomirs
Zhitomir, a provincial capital in the Russian Empire's southwest (now Ukraine), listed here alongside Berdichev, Rostov, and Poltava as an interchangeable byword for provincial mud.