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Sbornik povestej i rasskazov velikogo russkogo pisatelja Antona Pavlovicha Chehova. Chehov sozdal novye hody v literature, sil'no povlijav na razvitie sovremennogo rasskaza. Chehov ne stremilsja dat' otvety chitajushhej publike, a schital, chto rol' avtora zakljuchaetsja v tom, chtoby zadavat' voprosy, a ne otvechat' na nih. Nazvanie sborniku dal znamenityj psihologicheskij, "frejdistskij" rasskaz "Vragi". V nem pokazano vosprijatie okruzhajushhego mira glazami cheloveka, tol'ko chto perezhivshego ogromnoe gore - smert' malen'kogo syna….

After Nadya, a 16 year old girl, returns home from seeing a play, she is happily consumed with its plot of unrequited love. To Nadya, unrequited love is the most interesting type of love, as love is boring if everyone is happy. Quickly, Nadya's thoughts turn to her two suitors, Gorny and Guzdev. Although they have both declared their love for her, she, more than anything, wants to believe that they do not love her. Trying to emulate the unrequited love from the play, she writes a letter to Gorny, like the heroine in the play....

When Stepan Ivanovitch Kutsyn, the mayor of a town, learns that a Persian magnate is visiting, he instantly becomes intrigued. The mayor had already received various medals and badges, such as the badge of the Red Cross and the badge of the Society of Saving from Drowning. He also had made an impressive looking badge for himself to add to his jacket. The presence of the Persian magnate, Rahat-Helam, created the possibility that the mayor could receive the order of the Lion and the Sun, without having to perform any of the services generally required to receive such an honor.

The well-laid plans of two newlyweds go astray when an uncle and family arrive on the train on which the newlyweds are headed home for an intimate dinner.

An award-winning audiobook narrator and producer reads Anton Chekhov's "The Beggar", a moral tale in which the arrogant and self-righteous lawyer thinks he has "saved" the beggar by teaching him how to work for a living. In fact, he would have never continued the original task (or even begun it) if it weren't for the example of the lawyer's compassionate cook, who quietly chopped the wood for him without expecting anything in return. It was Olga's example of self-sacrifice, not Skvortsoff's example of "do-goodism" that inspired the man to change his life.

Chekhov’s tale of Ognev, who reminisces about a day in his past when he let his love, Vera Gavrilovna, slip away. A poignant story of keen psychological insight.

The singer Pasha's quiet evening together with her admirer Kolpakov is interrupted by a mysterious visitor, who reveals herself to be Kolpakov 's wife. She demands to see her husband (hiding in another room), then demands that Pasha return all the presents that he'd given her in order to collect the sum of money she claims he had embezzled. The frightened Pasha hands over all the gifts she’d received from all of her male admirers....

The story of Liharev, by Anton Chekhov. Liharev is definitely mad and people who are living normal lives are taken aback by his such vitality and passion. Perhaps they also desire it for themselves, to fully live in the moment...but are afraid to do so?

In this Chekhov tale, the talkative Rashevitch was entertaining a guest, Meier, the deputy magistrate. Rashevitch was enjoying Meier's company, as someone to talk to. But Rashevitch takes his social critiques a step too far for Meier, and his plans start to unravel.

Checkhov claims that truth and falsehood both play an important role in people’s personal happiness. This story examines the core of human motivation, giving insight into concepts like happiness, joy, deception, romance, and depression.

This is the story of prince Sergey Ivanitch, who is on a hunting trip. On the Kandurin estate, Grontovsky jumps up from behind a tree to let him know that hunting was not permitted there.

The Russian writer, playwright, and physician Anton Chekhov is considered to be one of the greatest short story writers in the history of literature. His short stories are held in high esteem by writers, critics, and audiences of all generations. This is the tale of the layer of a lawyer Kvashin, his wife, Nadyezhda Filippovna, and his mother-in-law.

"Ivan Matveyitch" is a short story by Anton Chekhov. The story contains an autobiographical element, according to Mikhail Chekhov who claimed: "This hero, Ivan Matveyich, is a true portrait of our brother Ivan, in those days when he, still destitute and before starting to teach, used to cross the whole of Moscow on foot, to Sokolniki, where the writer P. D. Boborykin lived, to copy his texts, the author dictating."

The story of an isolated man and wife visited by the postman and his coachman. This visit triggers all sorts of interpersonal dynamics, as the husband accuses his wife of being a witch who ensorcels young men, while the wife feels that her life has been wasted with her useless husband.

"Dreams" is a story about identity and fate. Two peasant constables are escorting a tramp to a district town. A conversation arises, and it becomes clear that the tramp may be a prisoner, but is not really a tramp.

"Zinotchka" is a story told through the eyes of a young boy. He saw his governess, Zinotchka, kissing and cuddling with his older brother, Sasha. Eventually, Zinotchka became his sister-in-law.

On a hot summer day two carpenters, Gerasim and Lyubim, sit in a pond, floundering about in the water under a willow tree, beside the unfinished bathing shed they were supposed to be working on. Blue from cold and wrangling, they struggle to drag a large eelpout by the gills, from under the root....

Ivan Chervyakov, a petty government official, while in the theatre, sneezes right upon the head of a man sitting in front of him, who happens to be a high-ranking government official. He spends the evening and the next day fawning before his sneeze victim trying to extract forgiveness, but what he succeeds instead is only bringing out a fit of rage in him. Shocked, Chervyakov returns home to lie there and die, due to the sheer stress of having endured such horror. Read in English, unabridged.

The cabman Iona's son recently died. He desperately and unsuccessfully tries to have a talk with the people he meets and tell them of how shattered he is. He ends up talking to his horse. Read in English, unabridged.

A boy of two years and eight months makes his first foray into the outside world in a company of his somewhat wayward nanny and is quite overwhelmed, having got even his first taste of alcohol. In the evening he cannot get to sleep. The soldiers with the brooms, the big cats, the horses, the bit of glass, the tray of oranges, the bright buttons, all gathered together, weigh on his brain. He tosses from side to side, babbles, and, at last, unable to endure his excitement, begins crying.