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Centering on the picaresque realism of Nikolai Gogol’s (1809-1852) mid-19th-century visions of the extraordinary in everyday life, this collection mines the ambiance and mind of pre-Revolutionary Russia. These seven stories take us from the Miracle Mile of St. Petersburg’s Nevsky Prospekt, and a summer night in a Ukrainian village, to the fantastical psychological geographies of fathers, sons, and madmen. Augmenting Gogol’s visions are two disturbing tales by the foremost storyteller of Russia’s “Silver Age”.

These are short stories of one of the greatest writers in the world, Anton Chekhov. For more than 100 years, his humor and philosophy have surprised readers by their depth and brightness. These stories are for Russia and Russians, as much today as they were 100 years ago.

The Darling by Anton Chekhov is a humorous and poignant character study of an endearing woman. Chekhov gives us a puzzling heroine who seems to subordinate herself to the male intellect yet emerges as a gentle woman blighted by disappointment, but still "soldiering on."

Nikolay is tired of his dull life working at a railway station and his loveless marriage. When he accidentally breaks a champagne bottle on New Year’ s Eve, his wife is convinced that it is an omen of bad luck to come. Nikolay, already dissatisfied with his life, thinks his wife is overreacting. His feels that not much more could go wrong in his life. Then, in the brink of his despair, a young and beautiful visitor, his wife’s aunt, arrives unexpectedly.

Tashhi ego, temno-zelenogo prohvosta! — zakrichali starichki i ponesli Ivana Nikiticha v zalu. V zale k starichkam prisoedinilis' kavalery i nachali podbrasyvat' pod samyj potolok bednogo gazetchika. Baryshni zahlopali v ladoshi, muzykanty zamolkli i polozhili svoi instrumenty, lakei, vzjatye shika radi iz kluba, zaudivljalis' «bezobraznosti» i preglupo zahihikali v svoi aristokraticheskie kulaki.

Zavtra utrom chtoby opjat' byl u menja! Skazhite emu, chto ja gluboko oskorblena ego nevezhlivym postupkom! I vy, babushka, skazhite! Nadejus', chto on budet u menja i ne zastavit posylat' za soboj. Podojdi sjuda, babushka! Na tebe, milaja! Chto, nebos', trudno upravljat'sja s takimi bol'shimi det'mi?

In modern society writing a letter, on paper, is almost unheard of. We all scribble notes and reminders but very rarely compose our thoughts in lengthy prose for another person to read. In this volume our talented authors bring us a plethora of narratives that centre themselves on how vital a few lines are to characters navigating through the twists and turns of a story.

Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin. These three names thrill the literary world as well as our own. They have gravitas, they have knowledge, experience and they have the literary style and panache to seduce our imagined world. Each has written a short story on pleasured lips placed on another’s flesh. For Chekhov it was a kiss in a darkened room that happened by mistake. Who was she? For Chopin it was a kiss that almost derailed a hoped-for marriage proposal. Why did he do that? For de Maupassant it was a niece seeking advice from her Aunt on when to kiss and whom. And did she?

Povesti i rasskazy velikogo russkogo pisatelja Antona Pavlovicha Chehova, napisannye 1883-1884 godah. 1. Ispoved'. 2. Kleveta. 3. Koe-chto. 4. Koe-chto. 5. Kozel ili negodjaj. 6. Kollekcija. 7. Komik 8. Kontrakt 1884 goda s chelovechestvom. 9. Kot. 10.Kratkaja anatomija cheloveka. 11.Krest. 12.Liberal. 13.List. 14.Majonez. 15.Mar'ja Ivanovna.

Povest' "Muzhiki" bylo ochen' spornym proizvedeniem. Derevnyu v obychnoj literature izobrazhali kak raj zemnoj. Pravdivoe izobrazhenie derevni v povesti "Muzhiki" polnost'yu razrushalo ehtot mif.

This is a story from the In the Ravine and Other Stories collection.

A selection of stories about love and romance from the best storytellers of the world including Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Turgenev trying to express love in all its forms. This volume opens with iconic Romeo and Juliet's tragic love story dating back to antiquity, followed by very passionate and quite unusual love between a doctor and his patient in 'The District Doctor' by Ivan Turgenev. And last, but not least, a story from the master of human relationship and psychology, Anton Chekhov and his story of 'The Man in a Case'. Read in English, unabridged.

Detskij radiospektakl' po motivam povest' "Kashtanka" russkogo pisatelja Antona Pavlovicha Chehova. Molodaja sobaka poterjala svoego hozjaina, stoljara Luku Aleksandrycha. Ona pytaetsja najti ego sled, no bezuspeshno. Glubokim vecherom, vybivshis' iz sil, Kashtanka zasypaet u dverej pod'ezda, gde ejo sluchajno nahodit nekij tainstvennyj neznakomec, vposledstvii okazavshijsja klounom. On laskaet zhivotnoe i provodit ego v cirk. Kashtanka poluchaet novuju klichku "Tjotka".

Ona dumala s dosadoj: ee rovesnicy, - a ej shel dvadcat' shestoj god, teper' hlopochut po hozjajstvu, utomilis' i krepko usnut, a zavtra utrom prosnutsja v prazdnichnom nastroenii; mnogie iz nih davno uzhe povyhodili zamuzh i imejut detej.

Osip Ivanovich Dymov, tituljarnyj sovetnik i vrach tridcati odnogo goda, sluzhit v dvuh bol'nicah odnovremenno: ordinatorom i prozektorom. S devjati chasov utra i do poludnja prinimaet bol'nyh, potom edet vskryvat' trupy. No ego dohodov edva hvataet na pokrytie rashodov zheny - Ol'gi Ivanovny, dvadcati dvuh let, pomeshannoj na talantah i znamenitostjah v hudozhestvennoj i artisticheskoj srede, kotoryh ona ezhednevno prinimaet v dome.

"Milostivye gosudaryni i milostivye gosudari" - radiopostanovka po jumoristicheskim rasskazam Antona Pavlovicha Chehova. Za 26 let tvorchestva Chehov sozdal okolo 900 razlichnyh proizvedenij (korotkih jumoristicheskih rasskazov, ser'joznyh povestej, p'es), mnogie iz kotoryh stali klassikoj mirovoj literatury.

"Leshij" - komedija v 4 dejstvijah Antona Pavlovicha Chehova. Napisana v 1889 godu. V "Leshem", kak i vo vseh proizvedenija Chehova nashli otrazhenie vse cherty nacional'nogo russkogo haraktera i priznak vremeni - utrata duhovnyh cennostej, sposobnost' k sochuvstviju, gotovnost' soperezhivat' gore i radost'.

Pravda, ee malen'koe koshach'e lichiko, s karimi glazami i s vzdernutym nosikom, svezho i dazhe pikantno, ee zhidkie volosy cherny, kak sazha, i kudrjavy, malen'koe telo graciozno, podvizhno i pravil'no, kak telo jelektricheskogo ugrja, no v obshhem... Vprochem, v storonu moj vkus. Grohol'skij, izbalovannyj zhenshhinami, ljubivshij i razljubivshij na svoem veku sotni raz, videl v nej krasavicu.

Vodevil' "Svad'ba" - sozdannyj po odnoimjonnoj p'ese Antona Pavlovicha Chehova, javljaetsja jazvitel'noj satiroj na obyvatel'skie nravy meshhan dorevoljucionnoj Rossii. Meshhane Zhigalovy, u kotoryh na vydan'e doch' Dasha, k uzhasu svoemu uznajut, chto chinovnik Aplombov, ezhednevno obedavshij u nih i zarekomendovavshij sebja zhenihom, zhenit'sja vovse ne sobiraetsja. S bol'shim trudom udalos' otcu Dashen'ki ugovorit' ambicioznogo zheniha sdelat' predlozhenie.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. The Russian Literary Tradition has justly earned a magnificent reputation. The Russian Empire of the Czars was a huge and disparate patchwork of peoples ruled by an overbearing elite that employed a middle-class bureaucracy to keep the working class firmly underfoot. Within its vaulted ranks are a role call of many of the greatest literary talents of the ages.