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"Our Province"
also: "Наша губерния"
A fictional provincial newspaper that has printed a handful of Makar Denisych's stories and correspondence, giving the district its only concrete, semi-public evidence of his literary activity; its recent rejection of one of his stories becomes the talk -- and mockery -- of the whole district.
Reading notes
- In Spring §7 "Our Province"
A fictional provincial newspaper, of the kind that flourished across Russia's provinces after the 1860s reforms; its willingness to print Makar's stories and its later rejection of one are the story's only external, semi-public measure of his literary standing.