place
Zvenigorod
also: звенигородским
A small town west of Moscow, named here as the estate of the landowner-playwright Konstantin Shilovsky, mock-linked to Spain via his operetta libretti.
Reading notes
- Toward a Characterization of the Peoples §24 Zvenigorod
A small town west of Moscow, the estate of the landowner-playwright Konstantin Shilovsky.
- To Ye. K. Sakharova, 28 July 1886. Babkino. §5 Звенигорода
A small town on the Moskva River west of Voskresensk/Babkino, an easy outing from the Chekhovs' summer estate; Chekhov had just returned from visiting Sakharova's aunt there when he wrote this letter.
- To P. G. Rozanov, 3 November 1884. Moscow. §6 Zvenigorod wilds
The rural district west of Moscow where Chekhov had worked as a district doctor that same summer (1884) and where Rozanov was apparently still stationed.