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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov [a] (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ k ɒ f /; [3] Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов [b], IPA: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕexəf]; 29 January 1860 [c] – 15 July 1904 [d]) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem ...
The concept is often attributed to Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, reputed to have said "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." In a letter to his brother, Chekhov actually said, "In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a ...
Chekhov's gun (or Chekhov's rifle; Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary and irrelevant elements should be removed. For example, if a writer features a gun in a story, there must be a reason for it, such as it being fired some time later in the plot.
Written in Melikhovo in mid-1898, the story was sent to Russkaya Mysl on 28 July of that year and was first published in this magazine's No.8, August issue. In a slightly revised version it was included into Volume 12 of the 1903, second edition of the Collected Works by A.P. Chekhov, and then into Volume 11 of the third, posthumous 1906 edition.
"Peasants" (Russian: Мужики, romanized: Muzhiki) is an 1897 novella by Anton Chekhov. Upon its publication it became a literary sensation of the year, caused controversy (even the Chekhov admirer Leo Tolstoy labeled it "the crime against the people") but in retrospect is regarded as one of Chekhov's masterpieces.
Chekhov wrote the story in the course of one day, while working upon The Steppe, so as to 'get some money to deal with the beginning-of-the-month payments', as he explained to Alexey Pleshcheyev in a 23 January letter. It was first published in Peterburgskaya Gazeta 's No. 24, 25 January 1888 issue, signed A. Chekhonte (А. Чехонте).
Among the people who thanked Chekhov for the story in their letters was his sister Maria. Ignaty Potapenko in his December 1897 letter expressed his 'delight' too. S. Ashevsky in his essay "Our Teachers in Chekhov's Stories" ( Obrazovaniye , April 1904) used the character of Maria Vasilyevna in his description of the dire state of the Imperial ...
The Chekhov memoirist Alexander Lazarev-Gruzinsky vehemently protested against such assertions [10] but later other critics had to concede that Yavorskaya (whose relationships with Chekhov in early 1890s have been described as "complicated" by the memoirist Tatyana Shchepkina-Kupernik) [11] was exactly the Ariadna type of a flashy, insincere ...