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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the provincial town of Taganrog, Ukraine, in 1860. In the mid-1880s, Chekhov became a physician, and shortly thereafter he began to write short stories. Chekhov started writing plays a few years later, mainly short comic sketches he called vaudvilles. The first show more collection of his humorous writings, Motley Stories, appeared in 1886, and his first play, Ivanov, was produced in Moscow the next year. In 1896, the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg performed his first full- length drama, The Seagull. Some of Chekhov's most successful plays include The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, and Three Sisters. Chekhov brought believable but complex personalizations to his characters, while exploring the conflict between the landed gentry and the oppressed peasant classes. Chekhov voiced a need for serious, even revolutionary, action, and the social stresses he described prefigured the Communist Revolution in Russia by twenty years. He is considered one of Russia's greatest playwrights. Chekhov contracted tuberculosis in 1884, and was certain he would die an early death. In 1901, he married Olga Knipper, an actress who had played leading roles in several of his plays. Chekhov died in 1904, spending his final years in Yalta. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Series

Works by Anton Chekhov

The Cherry Orchard (1904) 1,784 copies, 27 reviews
Stories (1889) 1,764 copies, 16 reviews
The Seagull (1896) 1,347 copies, 22 reviews
Three Sisters (1901) — Author — 1,180 copies, 19 reviews
Uncle Vanya (1897) — Author — 1,107 copies, 29 reviews
Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories (1964) — Author — 1,100 copies, 15 reviews
The Complete Short Novels (2004) 971 copies, 6 reviews
The Portable Chekhov (1947) 808 copies, 5 reviews
The Plays of Anton Chekhov (1997) 559 copies, 8 reviews
The Shooting Party (1885) 553 copies, 6 reviews
Forty Stories (Vintage Classics) (1991) 467 copies, 2 reviews
Sakhalin Island (1895) 445 copies, 7 reviews
The Cherry Orchard / Three Sisters (1901) — Author — 432 copies, 4 reviews
Plays (1912) 419 copies
The Duel (1891) 411 copies, 6 reviews
Selected Stories (Wordsworth Classics) (1995) 410 copies, 2 reviews
The cherry orchard {Tom Murphy} (2004) — Original author — 374 copies, 7 reviews
The essential tales of Chekhov (1999) 368 copies, 4 reviews
The Black Monk; Peasants (1995) 315 copies, 7 reviews
Selected Stories (Signet Classics) (1960) 303 copies, 4 reviews
About Love (2004) 289 copies, 7 reviews
Ward No. 6 [novella] (1892) — Author — 288 copies, 9 reviews
The Lady with the Dog (1899) — Author — 285 copies, 12 reviews
The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov (1932) — Author — 269 copies, 3 reviews
Gooseberries (Penguin Little Black Classics) (1898) 269 copies, 5 reviews
Peasants and Other Stories (1999) 266 copies, 3 reviews
The Kiss and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) (1982) 248 copies, 2 reviews
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories (1984) 242 copies, 4 reviews
My Life: The Story of a Provincial (1896) 241 copies, 5 reviews
Fifty-Two Stories (2020) 237 copies, 3 reviews
The Steppe (1888) — Author — 236 copies, 5 reviews
Racconti (1975) 219 copies, 2 reviews
The Complete Plays: Anton Chekhov (2006) 206 copies, 2 reviews
Kashtanka (1991) 196 copies, 4 reviews
Ivanov (1974) 188 copies, 8 reviews
The Black Monk (1985) 167 copies, 8 reviews
Three Years (1977) 141 copies, 1 review
The Story of a Nobody (1893) 139 copies, 3 reviews
Seven Short Novels (2003) 137 copies
Ward Six and other stories (1965) 136 copies
The Prank: The Best of Young Chekhov (2015) 135 copies, 5 reviews
Short Stories [Folio Society, 2001] (2001) 133 copies, 4 reviews
A Russian Affair (2007) 129 copies
Cuentos imprescindibles (2001) 128 copies, 3 reviews
The Fiancée and Other Stories (1986) 126 copies, 3 reviews
Noveller (1886) 112 copies
Wild Honey (1984) 112 copies, 2 reviews
My Life and Other Stories (1992) 108 copies, 1 review
The Kiss and Other Stories (1945) 104 copies, 1 review
Platonov (1923) — Author — 100 copies, 1 review
The Bet [short story] (1889) 100 copies, 7 reviews
Letters of Anton Chekhov (1973) 99 copies, 1 review
The Cherry Orchard / Three Sisters / Ivanov (1940) — Author — 80 copies
Early Stories (1982) 79 copies, 1 review
Narraciones (1982) 77 copies, 2 reviews
La gaviota; El jardín de los cerezos (1901) — Author — 76 copies, 2 reviews
Four Great Russian Short Novels (1961) — Contributor — 75 copies
Notebook of Anton Chekhov (1979) 74 copies, 2 reviews
Stories of Chekhov (2005) 73 copies, 1 review
Verhalen 1887-1891 (1955) 69 copies, 1 review
Verhalen 1882-1886 (1986) 67 copies, 1 review
The Comic Stories (1998) 65 copies, 1 review
Great Stories By Chekhov (1970) 63 copies, 2 reviews
Plays and Stories (1962) 61 copies
Meistererzählungen (1990) 60 copies, 2 reviews
A Doctor's Visit: Short Stories (1988) 57 copies, 2 reviews
Toneel (1994) 56 copies, 1 review
The cherry orchard {Michael Frayn} (1978) — Original author — 56 copies, 1 review
Selected Stories of Anton Chekov (2009) 55 copies, 1 review
The Brute and Other Farces (1985) 55 copies
Quatre contes russos (2009) 53 copies
Verhalen 1886-1887 (1986) 52 copies
Chekhov : a Life in Letters (1994) 52 copies, 1 review
Short Stories [trans. Elisaveta Fen] (1974) 52 copies, 2 reviews
A Marriage Proposal: A Comedy in One Act (1914) 52 copies, 3 reviews
Late-Blooming Flowers and Other Stories (1975) 48 copies, 1 review
The Crooked Mirror and Other Stories (1992) — Author — 47 copies
The Boor: A Comedy in One Act (1975) 45 copies, 2 reviews
The Collected Stories (2008) 44 copies
The Black Monk and Other Stories (1989) 43 copies, 1 review
Verhalen 1889-1894 (2008) 41 copies
Cuentos completos (1880-1885) (2013) 40 copies, 1 review
Verhalen 1894-1903 (2010) 40 copies, 1 review
15 beroemde verhalen (1982) 39 copies, 1 review
A minha mulher (1892) 39 copies, 4 reviews
The Wood Demon: A Comedy in Four Acts (1889) — Author — 39 copies
Teatro (1982) 38 copies
The Bet: And Other Stories (Tale Blazers) (1980) 37 copies, 2 reviews
Swan Song (2005) 36 copies, 1 review
Racconti (2004) 35 copies
The Exclamation Mark (2008) 34 copies, 2 reviews
Il fiammifero svedese (1883) 33 copies, 1 review
Contes (1995) 32 copies, 1 review
Tales from Tchehov (1938) 32 copies
Visne Bahcesi (2010) 31 copies
About Love: 3 Stories by Chekhov (2012) 30 copies, 1 review
Huwelijksverhalen (1996) 30 copies
Stephen Fry Presents a Selection of Anton Chekhov's Short Stories (2009) — Author — 28 copies, 3 reviews
Verhalen [ed. Wiebes] (1993) 27 copies, 2 reviews
A Dreary Story [short story] (1889) — Author — 27 copies
Chekhov'S Selected Stories (2018) 27 copies, 1 review
The Chekhov Collection of Short Stories (2020) 26 copies, 2 reviews
Kirjavia kertomuksia (1969) 26 copies
Teatro completo (1979) 25 copies
The Kiss (1993) 25 copies
Ravinen (1897) 24 copies
Aro ja muita novelleja (1988) 24 copies
Six plays of Chekhov (1962) 23 copies
Verhalen 23 copies
Ten early plays (1965) 23 copies
De echtgenoot (1948) 23 copies
The Darling [short story] (1899) 22 copies, 4 reviews
Marti (2014) 22 copies
Tchékhov : Oeuvres, tome 1 (1968) 22 copies, 1 review
The Peasants (1897) — Author — 21 copies
De dertig beste verhalen (2021) 21 copies
Rothschild's Violin (1894) 21 copies, 1 review
Primeros relatos (1981) 21 copies
Oncle Vania, Les trois soeurs (1897) — Author — 20 copies, 1 review
The Sea Gull / Uncle Vanya (1979) 20 copies, 1 review
The Man in a Case (1898) 19 copies
Racconti (1985) 19 copies
In the Ravine and Other Short Stories (2002) 19 copies, 3 reviews
Cuentos de Chéjov (Clásicos ilustrados) (2020) 19 copies, 1 review
The Kiss and Other Stories (2005) 19 copies
Üc Kiz Kardes (2000) 19 copies
Teste in fermento (1997) 19 copies
Üc Yil (2018) 19 copies
Young Chekhov : Platonov • Ivanov • The Seagull (2015) — Original author — 19 copies, 1 review
Misery [short story] (1886) — Author — 19 copies, 6 reviews
Stories of Anton Chekov (1949) 18 copies
Cinco novelas cortas (1900) 18 copies
Il giudice istruttore (2002) 18 copies
Stäppen och andra noveller (1981) 18 copies, 1 review
Orchards (1986) 17 copies
Racconti e teatro (1989) 17 copies
Büyük Oyunlar (2011) 17 copies
Fästmön (2014) 16 copies, 2 reviews
La Dame au petit chien (1998) 16 copies, 1 review
MESTARINOVELLEJA 1 (1975) 16 copies
Ten Plays (2008) 16 copies, 1 review
The Student [short story] (1894) — Author — 16 copies
Das Cechov Lesebuch. (1985) 16 copies
Cuentos (2023) 16 copies
Short novels and stories (2001) 15 copies
A Woman's Kingdom (1900) 15 copies
Suudelma ja muita novelleja (1986) 15 copies
The Woman in the Case and Other Stories (2009) 15 copies, 1 review
MESTARINOVELLEJA 2 (1975) 14 copies
Uno scherzetto (2002) 14 copies
Anna on the Neck (1895) 14 copies
The Grasshopper [short story] (1892) — Author — 14 copies
The Bishop [short story] (1902) — Author — 14 copies, 2 reviews
Collected Works 1895-1897 (1997) 14 copies
Vanka [short story] (1896) 14 copies
Erzählungen (1986) 13 copies
Tarpeettomia ihmisiä (1983) 13 copies, 1 review
Damen med hunden / Duellen (1986) 13 copies
Cuentos (1997) 13 copies
Atti unici (1982) 13 copies
The Sneeze (2015) 13 copies, 1 review
Valitut novellit. I-II (1996) 13 copies
24 contes (2021) 12 copies, 1 review
Capolavori (2003) 12 copies
Racconti umoristici (1991) 12 copies
Vaimoni ja muita novelleja (1978) 12 copies
Drei kleine Romane (1997) 12 copies
The Lottery Ticket (2013) 12 copies, 2 reviews
Négy színmű (1983) 12 copies
Tchékhov : Oeuvres, tome 2 (1970) 12 copies
Gusev (1890) 12 copies
A Day in the Country [short story] (1993) 12 copies, 1 review
Sämtliche Einakter (2001) 12 copies
Von der Liebe (2004) 11 copies, 1 review
On the High Road (2004) 11 copies
Пьесы (1993) 11 copies
Meisternovellen (1946) 11 copies, 1 review
Early Stories (1961) 11 copies
Premières Nouvelles (2004) 11 copies
I grandi racconti (1965) 11 copies
Contos (1900) 11 copies
Kinderverhalen (2004) 11 copies
Shadows and Light: Nine Stories (1968) — Author — 11 copies
5 Russian Masters (2003) 11 copies
Stories (1961) 10 copies
In the twilight (1887) 10 copies, 1 review
Bozkır & Bir Yolculuk Hikayesi (2019) 10 copies, 1 review
Historia de una anguila (2010) 10 copies, 1 review
Die besten Geschichten (2017) 10 copies
Chekhov'S Selected Stories (2018) 10 copies
Stories I (1968) 10 copies
Obras selectas (1999) 9 copies
Six Russian Short Novels (1963) 9 copies, 1 review
Cuentos de Chejov (2014) 9 copies
Stories (2000) 9 copies
NA HISTORIA AVORRIDA (1900) 9 copies, 1 review
Andres ulykke (1998) 9 copies
The Safety Match (1884) 9 copies
El Pabellon Numero 6 (1994) 9 copies
Stories Of Russian Life (1914) 9 copies
La cerilla sueca y otros cuentos (1980) 9 copies, 1 review
Contes escollits (2023) 8 copies
Siete cuentos (2017) 8 copies
Relat d'un desconegut (2021) 8 copies
Chekhov: Major Plays (1964) 8 copies
3 great classics (1964) 8 copies
Anima cara (1957) 8 copies
Die großen Dramen (2004) 8 copies
Six famous plays (1952) 8 copies
Stories Volume 2 (1969) 8 copies
Monologues from Chekhov (1987) 8 copies
La estepa. En el barranco (2001) 8 copies
Late bloei (2003) 8 copies
Teatre complet (1998) 8 copies
Vanja-eno (in Finnish) (2011) 8 copies
Ayi - Hasan Ali Yucel Klasikleri (2012) 8 copies, 1 review
Peasants (2015) 7 copies
Enemies [short story] (1887) — Author — 7 copies, 1 review
An Unnecessary Victory (2011) 7 copies
Verhalen 3 7 copies
The Beggar (2013) 7 copies
An Involuntary Tragedian (2004) 7 copies
Five Russian Dog Stories (2012) 7 copies, 1 review
O lásce 7 copies, 1 review
Los mejores cuentos (2022) 7 copies
Treze contos (2013) 7 copies
Luces (2011) 7 copies
The Wedding (1963) 7 copies
I contadini (1956) 7 copies
The cherry orchard {Simon Stephens} (2014) — Original author — 7 copies
Suuria kertomuksia (1893) 7 copies
Valitut novellit 1 (1959) 7 copies
Gesammelte Stücke (2003) 7 copies
Anyuta [short story] (1886) — Author — 7 copies
Izbrannoe (2003) 6 copies
Sentimentality 6 copies
Obras completas (2005) 6 copies
Ariadne 6 copies
Chéjov comentado (2010) 6 copies, 1 review
At Christmas Time [short story] (2017) 6 copies, 2 reviews
Frissons et crimes (1989) 6 copies
Cuaderno de notas (2010) 6 copies
Humoresken (1950) 6 copies
Selected Tales (2003) 6 copies
Paura (1997) 6 copies
Tre racconti (2011) 6 copies
Una extraña confesión (2013) 6 copies
Διηγήματα (2000) 6 copies
In Exile [short story] (1892) 6 copies, 1 review
Os Males do Tabaco (2001) 6 copies
Drammi 6 copies
The Anniversary (1761) 6 copies
Wybór opowiadań (2010) 6 copies
Fire noveller (2013) 6 copies
Stories of Anton Chekhov (1997) 6 copies
Short Fiction 6 copies
Teatre de Txekhov (1982) 6 copies
Kratke priče 5 copies
Freiheit von Gewalt und Lüge. (1992) 5 copies, 1 review
An Upheaval 5 copies, 1 review
Die Dame mit dem Hündchen (1995) 5 copies, 1 review
Chekhov on Theatre (2012) 5 copies
Uncle Vanya : A new adaptation (2016) — Original author — 5 copies
The Slanderer (2021) 5 copies
New Chekhovs (1998) 5 copies
Racconti (2011) 5 copies
Jagtselskabet (1987) 5 copies
Racconti 2. 5 copies
Dramer (2003) 5 copies
The Malefactor [short story] (1885) — Author — 5 copies
O Tio Vânia (2005) 5 copies
Sur la grand-route (1984) 5 copies
Okamžiky 5 copies, 1 review
Correspondencia (2008) 5 copies
August [1996 film] (2013) — Writer — 5 copies, 1 review
Lustige Geschichten (1991) 5 copies
Œuvres 5 copies
L'Homme à l'étui (2010) 5 copies, 1 review
Kerstverhalen (1991) 5 copies
Cuentos (1973) 5 copies
Correspondencia (1899-1904) (2008) 5 copies, 1 review
Cuentos rusos (1996) 5 copies
HIKAYELER 1 (1990) 5 copies
Fyra skådespel 5 copies
بعد المسرح (2012) 5 copies
Misfortune [short story] (1886) 4 copies
Der Mord (2004) 4 copies
THE STORIES OF ANTON CHEKHOV , Modern Library 50 (1932) — Author — 4 copies
CUENTOS REUNIDOS (2013) 4 copies
Die Hexe - Erzählungen (1977) 4 copies
The Cherry Orchard : In a version by Andrew Upton (2011) — Original author — 4 copies
Chekhov Shorts (2014) 4 copies
Darkness [short story] (1887) — Author — 4 copies, 1 review
Brute, The (1984) 4 copies, 1 review
A Transgression (1887) 4 copies, 1 review
Albion'un Kızı (2016) 4 copies, 1 review
Mutlu Son (2019) 4 copies
Contos universais (2003) 4 copies
O Lyubvi (1898) 4 copies
Vivre de mes rêves (2016) 4 copies
Misery 4 copies
الألم 4 copies
Chameleon (1884) 4 copies
Terror 4 copies
A Joke and Other Stories (2000) 4 copies
A Sonolenta 4 copies, 1 review
Baby 4 copies
Gesammelte Werke (2014) 4 copies
Récits 4 copies
Boys 4 copies
Herdepipan : noveller (1977) 4 copies
Briefe I. 1877 - 1889. (1991) 4 copies
Relatos (1984) 4 copies
Vanka 4 copies
Sommergeschichten (2020) 4 copies
Histoires grinçantes (1985) 4 copies
Los campesinos (1969) 4 copies
Samlade noveller (2022) 4 copies
Drie verhalen 4 copies
De vlinder 4 copies
ONNI (1973) 4 copies
Düello (2018) 4 copies
De mooiste verhalen (2022) 4 copies, 1 review
Venäläistä rakkautta (2000) 4 copies, 1 review
Rasskazy (2017) 3 copies
Malingerers 3 copies
Contos 3 copies
A Story Without a Title [short story] (1888) — Author — 3 copies
101 Short Stories (2006) 3 copies
Flores tardías (2013) 3 copies
Chekhov - greatest plays (2008) 3 copies
Novelle (1966) 3 copies
Briefe II. 1889 - 1892. (1997) 3 copies
The Trousseau (1883) 3 copies
A Naughty Boy 3 copies
Cukurda (Ciltli) (2022) 3 copies
Povídky (2008) 3 copies
Jeta ime 3 copies, 1 review
Rasskazy (2008) 3 copies
At Home {short story} (1887) 3 copies
The Lament (2010) 3 copies
Piezas humorticas (1998) 3 copies
Valda noveller 3 copies
La sala número 6 y otros cuentos (1949) 3 copies, 1 review
Racconti (1880-1884) (1995) 3 copies
Povídky 3 copies
Conseils à un écrivain (2004) 3 copies
A Senhora do Cãozinho (2022) 3 copies
Åtte enaktere (2008) 3 copies
Povídky o lásce (2017) 3 copies
Drei Erzählungen (1995) 3 copies, 1 review
Briefe 1877-1904.: 5 Bde. (1998) 3 copies
O GINJAL 3 copies
i agapi / η αγάπη (1999) 3 copies
Relatos, 1883-1884-1885 (1983) 3 copies
Cuentos de humor (1993) 3 copies
Châtaigne (2009) 3 copies
The Looking Glass (2017) 3 copies
Novelas de Tchékhov (2004) — Author — 3 copies
Novelas, teatro, cuentos (1973) 3 copies
To noveller (1986) 3 copies
Oncle Vania + La cerisaie (1987) 3 copies
The Teacher of Literature (2020) 3 copies
Champagne [short story] (1887) 3 copies
Vier eenakters (1989) 3 copies
Agafya (2020) 3 copies
Ionych [short story] (1898) 3 copies
Drunk (2014) 3 copies, 1 review
Racconti 3 copies
Chekhov: 11 Stories (2008) 3 copies
Anima cara 3 copies
The cherry orchard {David Lan} (2000) — Original author — 3 copies
Agafya [short story] (1886) 3 copies
Tres tormentas de nieve (2004) 3 copies
Nine Humorous Tales (2015) 3 copies
Ivánov - Colecao em Cena (2014) 3 copies
Odabrane priče 3 copies
Tre anni (1960) 3 copies
The Cossack (1887) 3 copies
Üç Yil (2020) 3 copies
Wintergeschichten (2019) 3 copies, 1 review
De meeuw ; Drie zusters (2001) 3 copies
Chekhov - greatest plays (2008) 3 copies
The Other Chekhov (2008) 3 copies
Los campesinos y otros cuentos (1985) 2 copies, 1 review
The Wolf 2 copies
CONTOS - VOLUME VII — Author — 2 copies
Tres Años (2014) 2 copies
Visne Bahcesi - Marti (2017) 2 copies
From the Diary of a Violent Tempered Man (1887) 2 copies, 1 review
“In Trouble” (1887) 2 copies
Smert chinovnika (2017) 2 copies
Hayatim (2020) 2 copies
Happiness (1887) 2 copies
Sorrow 2 copies
A Malefactor 2 copies
7 prica (2021) 2 copies
Martı 2 copies
The Objet d'Art (1886) 2 copies
The Orator 2 copies
Sergeant Prishibeyev (1885) 2 copies
An Upheaval 2 copies
The Marshal's Widow (1885) 2 copies
The Diplomat 2 copies
Overdoing It 2 copies
Nisanli Kiz (2022) 2 copies
A Joke 2 copies
Yolunu Sasiranlar (2017) 2 copies
At a Summer Villa (1886) 2 copies
A Ram and a Lady (1883) 2 copies
Little Comedies 2 copies
Joy 2 copies
The Mask 2 copies
To noveller 2 copies
Novelas Cortas (1993) 2 copies
Liebesgeschichten (2009) 2 copies
shest' rasskazov (1963) 2 copies
Autobiografía 2 copies
Hepsakka (1892) 2 copies
A Trifle from Life (1886) 2 copies
The Bet 2 copies
The Cherry Orchard (2024) — Original author — 2 copies
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What happens when a misogynistic philanderer falls in love for the first time? Chekhov won’t give you an answer, which is one of the notable and enjoyable things about this story from 1899. Much is unknown and unsaid, by the author and his characters. Chekhov takes advantage of the brevity of the form to let the reader fill in the gaps - possibly in different permutations with each reading. There are gaps of backstory as well as the middle and, especially, the abrupt and open ending. It show more means Chekhov avoids moralising and the reader chooses whether it's a tragedy or happy-ever-after.

Nevertheless, I wouldn’t be as hyperbolic as Nabokov’s final sentence, here:
“All the traditional rules of story telling have been broken in this wonderful short story of twenty pages or so. There is no problem, no regular climax, no point at the end. And it is one of the greatest stories ever written.”

Image: Chekhov in his study at his White Dacha in Yalta (Source)

The anti-hero

After the first few sentences, I noted “what a horrid, horrid, stalkerish man he is. Self-justification drips from every page”. He often states that women are “the inferior race”, but he needs their company because men are boring and he knows he is attractive to women. I didn’t warm to Gurov as the story progressed, but I don’t mind that: it is an interesting character study. His thoughts about women are derogatory and dismissive, and are part of his deflection of blame or guilt.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

He does reach a point of self-reflection, but it doesn’t mark a meaningful or plausible change. He thinks there has never been love in his affairs (another excuse), and acknowledges that “not one of them had been happy with him”. But he immediately remembers that they loved what they thought him to be (an image he cultivated), saw their mistake, and then continued to love him. So had they loved him or not? Either way, it’s the women’s fault.

What happens in Yalta stays in Yalta?

They walked and talked of the strange light of the sea: the water was a soft, warm, lilac color, and there was a golden band of moonlight upon it.

Yalta was a fashionable resort in Crimea (part of Ukraine, but occupied by Russia since 2014). Gurav is nearing forty and Anna is only twenty two. Both are on holiday without their spouses. The scenery is beautiful, the days are long, and the weather sultry. So far, so predictable. Where the story becomes interesting is what happens after they part “forever”.

Image: Sunset over Yalta by Ivan Ayvazovsky, in 1861, as it would have looked in their grandparents’ day (Source)

No gun

I’ve long been familiar with the principle of Chekhov’s Gun: that every element is necessary, so if a gun is mentioned early on, you know it will be fired before the end.

That’s not true here. There are lots of specific details that add realism, but don’t seem to affect the plot or have obvious symbolism: unhurriedly eating a watermelon, someone commenting that a sturgeon was “a bit high”, and an inkstand so unusual, I couldn’t find a picture of anything close to the description: “gray with dust and topped by a figure on horseback, its hat in its raised hand and its head broken off”.

Image: Inkwell with horse and jokey, c1900, French (Source)

There are even a couple of times the illicit lovers could have been caught, and in the case of the guard at Oreanda, Chekov teases the reader: “and this detail, too, seemed so mysterious and beautiful”. But nothing comes of it.

Quotes

Excuses, coupled with misogyny

• “They had found a wife for him when he was very young.”
• “He was eager for life.”
• “Women like his wife who loved without sincerity.”
• “Beautiful, frigid women.”
• “And these were women no longer young… and when Gurov grew cold to them their beauty aroused his hatred, and the lace on their lingerie seemed to him to resemble scales.”

• “He preserved the memory of carefree, good-natured women whom love made gay and who were grateful to him for the happiness he gave them, however brief it might be; and of women like his wife, who loved without sincerity… and of two or three others, very beautiful, frigid women, across whose faces would suddenly flit a rapacious expression… and when Gurov grew cold to them their beauty aroused his hatred, and the lace on their lingerie seemed to him to resemble scales.”

After Yalta

• “He did not dream of Anna Sergeyevna, but she followed him about everywhere and watched him. When he shut his eyes he saw her before him… He heard her breathing, the caressing rustle of her clothes.”

• “Her husband did and did not believe her”

• “He had two lives, an open one, seen and known by all who needed to know it, full of conventional truth and conventional falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life that went on in secret… everything that was of interest and importance to him, everything that was essential to him, everything about which he felt sincerely and did not deceive himself, everything that constituted the core of his life, was going on concealed from others; while all that was false… all that went on in the open. Judging others by himself, he did not believe what he saw, and always fancied that every man led his real, most interesting life under cover of secrecy as under cover of night.”

• “They talked of how to avoid the necessity for secrecy, for deception, for living in different cities, and not seeing each other for long stretches of time.”

• “And it seemed as though in a little while the solution would be found, and then a new and glorious life would begin; and it was clear to both of them that the end was still far off, and that what was to be most complicated and difficult for them was only just beginning.”


See also

• I’ve read a trio of other Chekhov stories and given them very different ratings:
The Bet, 5*. See my review HERE.
The Death of a Government Clerk, 2*. See my review HERE
Misery, 5*. See my review HERE.

• Is Anna a nod to Tolstoy’s adulterous Anna Karenina?

• Was Amor Towles nodding to Chekhov when he created willowy Anna Urbanova with dogs in A Gentleman in Moscow? See my review HERE.

Short story club

I read this as one of the stories in The Art of the Short Story, by Dana Gioia, from which I'm aiming to read one story a week with The Short Story Club, starting 2 May 2022.

You can read this story here.

You can join the group here.
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"At Christmas Time" moves the way cold seeps through a thin coat—quiet, yet straight into the bones. Chekhov offers no melodrama and no hand reaching for our pity. Vasilisa’s longing drifts through the story like wood smoke over a frozen village, shaped by poverty, fear, and the blunt indifference of circumstance. The prose is spare and tender, alert to the small truths that make ordinary lives ache with reality.
Its brevity is both mercy and wound. Chekhov doesn’t linger, but what he show more leaves behind clings to you, the way certain memories do when the light fades. This isn’t the broad canvas of "The Steppe" or the quiet moral thunder of "The Lady with the Dog", yet it belongs to the same family—work that trusts restraint over display.
This is an adult Christmas story, stripped of tinsel and consolation. The season becomes a reckoning, not a refuge, and hope is in short supply for everyone involved. Still, there is something humane in its honesty. Like Chekhov at his best, it asks us to look harder at what we have, to hold it more carefully, and that we are all in need of grace.
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"...unceasing progress towards perfection..."

Love, ah sweet love and the longing for it, the early giddiness, the high expectations, the disappointments, the irritations, the growing bitterness, the regrets...the philandering.

This story is about that but an unexpected one that begins at the end, with philandering. Nothing assures me that it will not be a wheel, turning back to the beginning.

If a romance story for you is about people you care about who wrench your heart over the obstacles show more they must overcome to be together, and the heart-warming joy of their union at last, this is not that kind of romance.

This is cynical romance, one that begins outside of marriage, as part of a game of short-lived pursuits to combat boredom. The man is a cad who likes women almost only because he finds men boring. He thinks of women as "the lesser race." He sees the lady with the dog, a young woman seeking her own first dalliance outside of a marriage that is just 2 years old, and together they begin an almost calculated affair.

But something happened. It became love. Although, I can't see why either sees anything in the other to warrant a surprised, passionate devout feeling of love. But there you go. Love, ah sweet, inexplicable love.

Almost always doomed to failure when its foundation is romance. Or lust. Or boredom. Or expectations of perfection. Or being too young. Or....well, yes, it's a fragile thing.

"...then a new and splendid life would begin..."
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My ears were ringing after finishing this play, because it felt like everyone was yelling all the time. Ivanov, the title character, is a disillusioned, burned-out 35-year-old who no longer loves his wife but can’t actually tell her himself because that would be too easy. He has an affair with a younger woman and everyone thinks he’s after her for the money, so there’s a lot of shouting about that. The estate he lives on isn’t making much money and his loans are being called in, so show more there’s a lot of angsting about that. I’m around Ivanov’s age and can definitely relate to feeling like a failure after acquiring a lot of responsibilities that you can’t keep up with, but I couldn’t condone his keeping his wife in the dark, nor the fact that he and others hid from her that she was dying of tuberculosis. show less

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