Boiberik.
In “Tevye Strikes It Rich,” which first appeared in 1894 and was revised in 1897, Tevye transports two women to a dacha by a pond at the far end of the woods. Tevye fantasizes about starting a grocery store in Boiberik, which he hopes will lead to a dry-goods store, a woodlot, and a tax concession. At the end, he simply buys a milch cow.
Yehupetz. Russian city that is a fictional representation of Kiev and supposedly a place where fortunes thrive. The rich live in mansions with walls to keep out beggars. When not traveling to German health resorts when their wives have even so trivial a complaint as a stomachache, they ride around town in rubber-wheeled droshkies. The most famous rich person ironically happens to be Brodsky, a Jew, but his name is invoked simply to demarcate the separation of rich Jews, who are immune to suffering, from poor ones, who experience great dangers inside and outside the Pale of Settlement.
Anatevka. One of the small Russian towns, declared a village, in “Today’s Children,” so that Jews could be more easily expelled from it. A place unified by Jewish religion and tradition. The richest man is Lazar Wolf, the widower-butcher who asks for Tsaytl’s hand in marriage. His house has a cupboard full of copper, two samovars, a brass tray, a set of gilt-edged cups, a pair of silver candlesticks, a cast-iron menorah, a chest for cash, and an attic filled with hides. However, even these emblems of prosperity are not enough for him to win Tsaytl, who goes, instead, to Motl the tailor.