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On an early October morning, Psyekoff, the right hand-man to Lieutenant Marcus Ivanovitch Klausoff, informs the inspector of police that he suspects Klausoff has been murdered. Immediately, the inspector and his team head to Klausoff’s home to investigate the matter. After examining the outside of the house, the inspector sends word to the magistrate, asking him to come investigate the case. When the magistrate and his assistant arrive, they check Klausoff’s room, only to find that he is not in there.

Sbornik rasskazov velikogo russkogo pisatelja Antona Pavlovicha Chehova. Chehov - velikij russkij myslitel'-realist, oblichitel' mira poshlosti i meshhanstva, nesravnennyj hudozhnik. Problemy, postavlennye v ego proizvedenijah, aktual'ny i v nashi dni.

Christmas may come but once a year but evil, intrigue and malevolence are everyday events. Within this volume Christmas is a time when these dark forces form and coalesce to take life and liberty from people who may and who may not deserve the spin of its wheel. Some are merely evil, others have the beginnings of a conscience that displays itself in a dialogue with the devil, or perhaps only themselves. But, in this volume Christmas takes a ringside seat to the horrors of the human heart.

'If anything happens it's all known at once, nothing is hidden! It's incredible! You can't imagine! Look! My name has been published! Now all Russia knows of me!' A cautionary tale about people wanting and getting fame at any cost.

Eto moe imja populjarno. V Rossii ono izvestno kazhdomu gramotnomu cheloveku, a za graniceju ono upominaetsja s kafedr s pribavkoju izvestnyj i pochtennyj. Prinadlezhit ono k chislu teh nemnogih schastlivyh imen, branit' kotorye ili upominat' ih vsue, v publike i v pechati schitaetsja priznakom durnogo tona. Tak jeto i dolzhno byt'. Ved' s moim imenem tesno svjazano ponjatie o cheloveke znamenitom, bogato odarennom i nesomnenno poleznom. Ja trudoljubiv i vynosliv, kak verbljud, a jeto vazhno, i talantliv, a jeto eshhe vazhnee.

Doctors and kind relations will succeed in stupefying mankind, in making mediocrity pass for genius and in bringing civilisation to ruin. Kovrin is a gifted man, well educated. Following the advice of his doctor, he decides to leave his busy city lifestyle and travels to recover his health in a beautiful family country estate. There he meets this mystical and prophetic Black Monk, a character from an ancient legend, which he thinks is nothing more than a hallucination.

Nellie, a young and pretty girl, dreaming day and night of being married, gazes into a looking glass. In the mirror her future husband emerges, and they live together through days and months in fast-forward, yet she sees her future distinctly in all its details.

From the sublime to the ridiculous, Anton Chekhov saw it all. And he wrote about it as only a master storyteller can, capturing not only the nuances of human behavior, but also the motivations behind the behavior. Often, too, he found universal truths along the way. These stories cover a variety of themes, both comic and tragic, as his characters encounter religion, government bureaucracy, and each other. And although they were written long ago, they are still surprisingly fresh.

Misery by Anton Chekhov is a short story that explores the working-class, human despair, and suffering in Tsarist Russia. Chekhov's brief portrait of working-class life follows a sledge driver named Iona as he attempts to process his grief about his son's untimely death.

Surely that needs no explanation.... If the teacher rides a bicycle, what can you expect the pupils to do? You will have them walking on their heads next! Read in English, unabridged.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is considered a very "real life" writer, his feet solidly on the ground at all times. The Black Monk is his foray into madness and mysticism to rival the likes of Dostoyevsky, Saltykov-Shchedrin, and Kuprin.

It was past midnight. Nikolay Yevgrafitch knew his wife would not be home very soon, not till five o'clock at least. He did not trust her, and when she was long away he could not sleep, was worried, and at the same time he despised his wife, and her bed, and her looking-glass, and her boxes of sweets, and the hyacinths, and the lilies of the valley which were sent her every day by someone or other, and which diffused the sickly fragrance of a florist's shop all over the house.

A lawyer encounters a beggar and offers him a menial job, after which he regularly comes to do odd jobs. Eventually, the lawyer gets him a clerical position. Years later, the beggar has risen in life, but it turns out that it was the lawyer’s servant Olga who caused the change of heart which set the beggar’s life in a new direction.

"Duel'" - odna iz samyh bol'shih po razmeru povestej Antona Pavlovicha Chekhova. Vpervye opublikovana v 1891 godu v gazete "Novoe vremya". Dejstvie povesti proiskhodit na Kavkaze na beregu Cyornogo morya. Pervoe upominanie o zamysle, ochen' napominayushchem syuzhet "Duehli", nahoditsya eshche v pis'me Chekhova 1888 goda. Cherez neskol'ko mesyacev posle poezdki po Kavkazu, v noyabre 1888 goda Cekhov pisal A. S. Suvorinu: "Ah, kakoj ya nachal rasskaz! Pishu na temu o lyubvi. Formu izbral fel'etonno-belletristicheskuyu. Poryadochnyj chelovek uvez ot poryadochnogo cheloveka zhenu i pishet ob ehtom svoe mnenie; zhivet s nej - mnenie; raskhoditsya - opyat' mnenie.

This audiobook contains condensed versions of 20 literary works intended for the study of literature in the eighth grade. Russian literature is here represented by: Anton Chekhov, "Dva rasskaza"; Alexandr Pushkin, "Arap Petra Velikogo", "Kapitanskaya dochka"; Alexandr Kuprin, "Sobachie schastie"; Alexandr Belyayev, "Chelovek, nashedshy svoe litso"; Aleksey Tolstoy, "Knyaz Serebrany"; Aleksey Tolstoy, "Petr Pervy"; Ivan Bunin, "Lapti", "Preobrazhenie"; Maksim Gorky, "V lyudyakh"; and many more.

Yakov Ivanov is an elderly coffin-maker in a small village with a population that doesn’t generate enough deaths for him to make any real money. He is also a fiddler who sometimes sits in with a Jewish klezmer orchestra in spite of his dislike of Jews and of the flutist, Rothchild, in particular. Marfa, his long-suffering and unloved wife, becomes mortally ill with a contagious illness. He struggles to recall their shared past as he builds her coffin and soon he, too, succumbs to mortal illness, provoking a self-searching meditation and a change of heart.

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.

A piano tuner called Murkin, a close-shaven man with a yellow face, with a nose stained with snuff and cotton wool in his ears, came out of his hotel room into the passage. And looking at his frightened face one might have supposed that the ceiling had fallen in on him. 'Upon my word, Semyon!' he cried, seeing the attendant running towards him. 'What is the meaning of it? I am a rheumatic, delicate man and you make me go barefoot! Why is it you don't give me my boots all this time? Where are they?'

世界に名高いロシアの作家チェーホフ(1860~1904)。その初期ユーモア短編集から、『お化け鏡』、『床屋では』、『謎の女(ひと)』の3作品を収めました。本格的に作家の道を歩み出す前、冗談半分で雑誌に投稿し始めた頃の作品ですが、すでに天賦の才が見え隠れしています。 『お化け鏡』。蝋燭を手にした若夫婦が、暗闇の地下室へ入ります。そこにあるのは、先祖伝来の鏡。悪魔が宿ると言い伝えられてきました。若い妻は、鏡を覗いた瞬間、あっと声を上げて気絶してしまいます。一体、何事が……。 『床屋では』。気まじめな若者が営む粗末な床屋へ馴染みの客がやってきます。待ちに待った客のようです。病み上がりの客は、医者の指示通り、丸坊主にしてくれと頼みます。後で濃い毛髪が生えてくるからだそうです。さて、どうなりますことやら…… 『謎の女(ひと)』。一等車の個室。駆け出しの作家と着飾った美女が向かい合っています。女は、切々と不幸な身の上話を始めます。若い作家は、この女性に身も心も捧げたい気持ちになります。薄幸な、謎の女性は、ふと、ため息をつくと……。 訳・朗読 清水柳一/ロシア語発音指導 東シャトウーヒナ/音響効果 岩田直行/朗読者:清水 柳一(Shimizu Ryuichi) ...

Selections include: "The Duel" and "The Umbrella" by Guy de Maupasssant; "The Schartz-Metterklume Method", "The Open Window", and "The Story Teller" by Saki; "The Scandal Monger" and "Verochka" by Anton Chekhov; and "The Wardrobe" by Thomas Mann.