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The Egyptian Pyramid by the Rostov-on-Don artist Dmitry Lyndin , in front of the main entrance to Gorky Park in Taganrog, Anton Chekhov's native city . Chapter 1. Misbehaviour. Kashtanka, a young foxey-looking mongrel belonging to a carpenter drunkard named Luka Alexandrovich, gets lost through her own 'improper behaviour', frightened by a ...
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 fear of death, which to an intensely intellectual people like the Russians, is an obsession of terror, and shadows all their literature,—it appears all through Tolstoi's diary and novels,—is analysed in many forms by Chekhov. In Ward No. 6 Chekhov pays his respects to Tolstoi's creed of self-denial, through the lips of the doctor's ...
The Life and Letters of Anton Tchekov. Translated and Edited by S.S. Koteliansky and Philip Tomlinson. New York. 1925. The Personal Papers of Anton Chekhov. Introduction by Matthew Josephson. New York. 1948. The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov. Edited by Lillian Hellman and translated by Sidonie Lederer. New York. 1955. ISBN 0-374-51838-6.
The Darling" (Russian: Душечка, romanized: Dushechka) is a short story by Russian author Anton Chekhov, first published in the No.1, 1899, issue of Semya (Family) magazine, on January 3, in Moscow. [1] Later, Chekhov included it into Volume 9 of his Collected Works, published by Adolf Marks.
Чехонте). It was included by the author into the Volume 1 of the Adolf Marks-published Chekhov's Collected Works (1899). [1] The story was translated into Bulgarian and Czech languages during Chekhov's lifetime. [2] The story's short introductory paragraph informs the reader of a complaints book which is there on the desk at a railway ...
"The Death of a Government Clerk" (Russian: Смерть чиновника, romanized: Smert chinovnika) is a short story by Anton Chekhov published originally the Oskolki magazine's 2 July, No. 27 issue, subtitled "The Incident" (Случай) and signed A. Chekhonte (А. Чехонте).
Later it was included by Chekhov into Volume 2 of his Collected Works published by Adolf Marks in 1899–1901. In a 16 (old style: 3) February letter Chekhov informed Nikolai Leykin, hinting at possible problems with censorship: "Now I send you a story. Some student issues are touched in it, but nothing there that would be deemed un-liberal.