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Anton Chekhov was probably the least statuesque major Russian writer of his generation. He wrote short stories rather than novels, lived modestly, and rarely boomed out complicated philosophical ideas ...

Chekhov’s gun is a dramatic principle that maintains that every element of a play should fulfill its promise to the audience—for example, a loaded gun that appears in the first act must go off by the ...

Anton Chekhov’s “Sakhalin Island,” his long investigation of prison conditions in Siberia, is the best work of journalism written in the nineteenth century. The fact that so few people know of the ...

The directors Michael DeFilippis, Dmitry Krymov and Aleksandr Molochnikov all infuse their current productions with a burning, modern rage. By Helen Shaw Peter Eotvos’s “Three Sisters,” based on the ...

Russian writers know the beauty and pain of true love. Remembered as one of the most skillful writers in Russian literature (and one of the most treasured among short story authors of any nationality) ...

The short stories and comic sketches by Anton Chekhov gave a sweeping survey of Russian life in the second half of the 19th century. His famous plays include "The Cherry Orchard", "Uncle Vanya" and ...

It sings with his spirit: Chekhov's White Dacha in Yalta, 1901 When I went to Melikhovo in 1997 it was in the hands of dedicated individuals rather than the state, and while it was certainly pleasant ...

When Anton Chekhov died in Badenweiler in July 1904 of tuberculosis of the lungs, I was a young man who had embarked upon literature with some short stories and a novel which owed a great deal to the ...