In Anton Chekhov's last letter to his sister Masha we hear of the author's final travel plans. Complaining of the heat which he wishes to get away from, he states that he would like to go to Como but that everyone is running away from the heat there. And then he states that:
"I should like to go from Trieste to Odessa by steamer, but I don't know how far it is possible now, in June and July... If it should be rather hot it doesn't matter; I should have a flannel suit. I confess I dread the railway journey. It is stifling in the train now, particularly with my asthma, which is made worse by the slightest thing. Besides, there are no sleeping carriages from Vienna right up to Odessa; it would be uncomfortable. And we should get home by railway sooner than we need, and I have not had enough holiday yet. ..."
He had visited Trieste ten years earlier in the autumn of 1894.
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