Cynthia Ozick has called this peerless master of the short story “our Chekhov.”
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The play even makes reference to Chekhov, giving it enough elitist cred for some voters.
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Readers familiar with Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin or Turgenev have already tasted some 19th-century Russian gothic literature.
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We all know about Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Dostoevsky, but what about their compatriot, Nikolai Leskov?
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Chekhov has talked about this, that any designation besides writer (Russian writer, whatever) was a diminishment.
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Chekhov, certainly, with his extraordinary modesty and his dislike of phrase-making, would never have said anything like that.
Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov|Maxim Gorky
Chekhov had never been to the place before he bought it, and only visited it when all the formalities had been completed.
Letters of Anton Chekhov|Anton Chekhov
A wretched dentist used contaminated forceps in extracting a tooth, and Chekhov was attacked by periostitis in a malignant form.
Letters of Anton Chekhov|Anton Chekhov
Chekhov and "O. Henry" were both great writers because they copied nobody.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story|Various
Owing to various causes in no way connected with Chekhov, this scheme came to nothing.
Letters of Anton Chekhov|Anton Chekhov
British Dictionary definitions for Chekhov
Chekhov
Chekov
/ (ˈtʃɛkɒf, Russianˈtʃɛxəf) /
noun
Anton Pavlovich (anˈtɔn ˈpavləvitʃ). 1860–1904, Russian dramatist and short-story writer. His plays include The Seagull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1900), The Three Sisters (1901), and The Cherry Orchard (1904)