Title: Dreams Date Read: 7th February 2012 Briefly: While tramping towards the district town, peasant constables Ptaha and Sapozhnikov get to know something of the person they're escorting - a tramp who doesn't look anything like a tramp, who's … [Read more...]
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Chekhov Shorts: Mire
Title: Mire Date Read: 7th February 2012 Briefly: Lieutenant Alexandr Grigoryevitch Sokolsky arrives at the home of a young wealthy Jewess to collect money owed to his cousin, Kryukov. Keen to collect the money because it is getting loaned to him … [Read more...]
Chekhov Shorts: A Peculiar Man
Title: A Peculiar Man Date Read: 20th September 2011 Briefly: Midwife, Marya Petrovna Koshkin is awoken in the middle of the night by Kiryakov, a 'tall, well-made gentleman, no longer young, but with a handsome, severe face and bushy whiskers.' The … [Read more...]
Chekhov Shorts: In the Court
Title: In the Court Date Read: 20th September 2011 Briefly: The Circuit Court is in session, but for all members on this day - and one expects every day - it's a mundane and lethargic affair. Even the case of peasant Nikolay Harlamov, who is … [Read more...]
Chekhov Shorts: Difficult People
Title: Difficult People Date Read: 13th September 2011 Briefly: Yevgraf Ivanovitch Shiryaev's family await at the dinner table for the farmer to finish washing his hands. He finally joins them and in something of a tense atmosphere, the eldest son … [Read more...]
Chekhov Shorts: A Trifle from Life
Title: A Trifle from Life Date Read: 13th September 2011 Briefly: Nikolay Ilyitch Belyaev goes to visit the home of his long-term love interest, Olga Ivanovna Irnin. Finding Olga Ivanovna not at home, Nikolay Ilyitch settles down on a lounge chair … [Read more...]
Chekhov Shorts: A Tripping Tongue
Title: A Tripping Tongue Date Read: 6th September 2011 Briefly: Having returned from Yalta, Natalya Mihalovna excitedly tells her husband Vassitchka all about her trip. She's keen to tell him how immoral her friend Yulia has been acting in front … [Read more...]
Chekhov Shorts: A Trivial Incident
Title: A Trivial Incident Date Read: 6th September 2011 Briefly: The narrator takes a trip to the Shabelsky pine-forest to go shooting for woodcock with a down and out Russian prince. The men are soon stopped by Grontovsky, the head clerk of the … [Read more...]
Chekhov Shorts: In the Dark
Title: In the Dark Date Read: 11th January 2011 Briefly: After being rudely awakened by her husband's involuntary sneezing, Marya Mihalovna is looking out of the window in the dead of night when she fancies that she sees a burglar sneaking in … [Read more...]
Chekhov Shorts: The Jeune Premier
Title: The Jeune Premier Date Read: 11th January 2011 Briefly: Proud of his ability to connect with the common people, actor Yevgeny Alexeyitch Podzharrov is also boastful of the women he has conquered in the name of love. On this particular day … [Read more...]