Chronology

Age 15. A Taganrog schoolboy. His older brothers Alexander and Nikolai leave for Moscow; Anton stays behind in the port town, already scribbling — a homemade class magazine, skits for his brothers.

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1.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 1875. Taganrog. 1875

Age 16. The family shop fails; his father flees his creditors to Moscow and the household follows — all but Anton, left alone in Taganrog to finish school, tutoring younger boys for his keep and selling off the family's things.

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1.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 9 March 1876. Taganrog. 1876
2.   To M. M. Chekhov, 7 December 1876. Taganrog. 1876

Age 17. The Taganrog years alone — lessons given, poverty managed, a first visit to Moscow to see the family. The earliest surviving letters date from this stretch, already wry about hardship.

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1.   To M. M. Chekhov, 25 August 1877. Taganrog. 1877
2.   To M. M. Chekhov, 4 November 1877. Taganrog. 1877
3.   To M. M. Chekhov, 1 January 1877. Taganrog. 1877
4.   To M. M. Chekhov, 8 February 1877. Taganrog. 1877
5.   To M. M. Chekhov, 10 April 1877. Moscow. 1877
6.   To M. M. and Ye. M. Chekhov, 6 May 1877. Taganrog. 1877
7.   To M. M. Chekhov, 9 June 1877. Taganrog. 1877
8.   To M. M. Chekhov, 29 July 1877. Taganrog. 1877

Age 18. Still alone in Taganrog, he writes his first full-length drama — the sprawling untitled play posterity calls Platonov — and sends it to Moscow, where his brother pronounces it unstageable.

Plays Untitled Play (Bezottsovshchina / "Platonov") 1878

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1.   To M. M. Chekhov, 16 April 1878. Taganrog. 1878
2.   To P. Ye. and Ye. Ya. Chekhov, 20 June 1878. Taganrog. 1878

Age 19. Finishes the gymnasium, wins a town scholarship, rejoins the family in a Moscow basement, and enters the medical faculty of Moscow University — from now on the family's chief support.

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1.   To M. P. Chekhov, 1879. Taganrog. 1879
2.   To Yu. I. Lyadova, 18 November 1879. Moscow. 1879
3.   To G. P. Kravtsov, December 1879. Moscow. 1879

Age 20. First print. In March the Petersburg comic weekly Strekoza takes a sketch, and the flood begins — dozens of pieces this year alone, signed with the first of his pen-names.

Stories The Theatrical Ticket-Touts' Cooperative 1880 Stories The Baron 1880 Stories The Lady of the Manor 1880 Stories What Is Most Often Found in Novels, Novellas, and So Forth? 1880 Stories Late-Blooming Flowers 1880 Stories A Good Acquaintance 1880 Stories Doctor Chertolobov 1880 Stories The Executors of the Merchant Vislyaev 1880 Stories Two Novels 1880 Stories Two Scandals 1880 Stories The Twenty-Ninth of June (the tale of a hunter who never hits his mark) 1880 Stories Philosophical Definitions of Life 1880 Stories Fortune-Tellers, Male and Female 1880 Juvenilia Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) 1880 Stories Buckwheat Porridge Praises Itself 1880 Stories The Sinner from Toledo 1880 Stories Cherepov, Maker of Coffins 1880 Stories This and That (Letters and Telegrams) 1880 Stories Poetry and Prose 1880 Stories Idyll -- Alas and Alack! 1880 Stories Departed from Moscow: 1880 Stories The Alarm Clock's Calendar 1880 Stories Comic Advertisements and Notices 1880 Stories Antosha Ch.'s Advertisement Office 1880 Stories The Correspondent 1880 Stories Which of the Three? 1880 Stories The Crooked Mirror 1880 Stories The Flying Islands, by Jules Verne, Translated by A. Chekhonte 1880 Stories Revenge 1880 Stories Rogues Despite Themselves 1880 Stories My Jubilee 1880 Stories At the Wolf-Baiting 1880 Stories Ran Into It 1880 Stories A Useless Victory 1880 Stories Unpublished. An Unfinished Novel 1880 Stories An Unsuccessful Visit 1880 Stories A Cook Wanted 1880 Stories He and She 1880 Stories Subscriptions Now Open for 1882 1880 Stories Papasha 1880 Stories Before the Wedding 1880 Stories Something Lived Through 1880 Stories St. Peter's Day 1880

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1.   To N. P. and I. P. Chekhov, 28 April 1880. Moscow. 1880
2.   To L. A. Kamburova, 17 September 1880. Moscow. 1880
3.   To Yu. I. Lyadova, 21 September 1880. Moscow. 1880
4.   To L. A. Kamburova, 1880. Moscow. 1880
5.   To P. P. Filevsky, 27 October 1880. Moscow. 1880
6.   To N. A. and L. S. Zakoryukiny and I. I. and Yu. I. Lyadov, 25 December 1880. Moscow. 1880

Stories A Letter to a Learned Neighbor 1880 Stories In the American Style 1880 Stories The Attorney I. N. Moshennikov 1880 Stories A Lost Cause 1880 Stories Speech and Strap 1880 Stories Advertisements and Notices 1880 Stories Salon de Varietes 1880 Stories The Subscribers Have Absconded 1880 Stories Village Aesculapiuses 1880 Stories A Nasty Story 1880 Stories Another Case 1880 Stories The First Incident 1880 Stories The Third Case 1880 Stories The Trial 1880 Stories The Mysteries of One Hundred and Forty-Four Catastrophes 1880 Stories Temperaments (According to the Latest Findings of Science) 1880 Stories Trichinae Without Sausages 1880 Stories At Leukhin's Bookshop 1880 Stories В книжном магазине "нового времени" 1880 Stories Arrived in Moscow: 1880 Stories In Winkler's Museum 1880 Stories In the Carriage 1880 Stories Spring's Arrival (A Discourse) 1880 Stories The Fair 1880 Stories The Clairvoyant of Tsvetnoy Boulevard 1880 Stories If You Chase Two Hares, You Won't Catch Either 1880 Stories Over Some Apples 1880 Stories Forgotten!! 1880 Stories Problems of a Madman Mathematician 1880 Stories The Green Braid 1880 Stories Artists' Wives 1880 Stories Live Merchandise 1880 Stories Life in Questions and Exclamations 1880 Stories Dentist Lumpenmak 1880

Age 21. Medical student by day, comic journalist by night — "Antosha Chekhonte" fills Moscow's humor sheets with sketches, parodies, and captions at kopecks a line.

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1.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 1881. Moscow. 1881
2.   To S. Kramayev, 8 May 1881. Moscow. 1881

Age 22. Begins writing for Leikin's Oskolki ("Fragments"), the sharpest of the Petersburg weeklies — a hundred-line ceiling per piece that trains the brevity he never loses.

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1.   To M. M. Chekhov, 30 September 1882. Moscow. 1882
2.   To P. Ye. Chekhov, 14–15 October 1882. Moscow. 1882
3.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 8 November 1882. Moscow. 1882
4.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 12 November 1882. Moscow. 1882
5.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 December 1882. Moscow. 1882

Juvenilia Captions for Drawings 1882

Age 23. Full spate for Oskolki: a story a week or faster, written between lectures and hospital wards — the year of the great comic miniatures.

Stories The Album 1883 Stories The Ram and the Young Lady 1883 Stories The Nightingale's Benefit 1883 Stories Bibliography 1883 Stories The Grateful One 1883 Stories Little Brother 1883 Stories Reading (A Tale of an Old Sparrow) 1883 Stories What Is Better? 1883 Stories The Deputy, or the Tale of How Desdemonov Lost 25 Roubles 1883 Stories The Virtuous Tavern-Keeper 1883 Stories A Daughter of Albion 1883 Stories The Commerce Counsellor's Daughter 1883 Stories The Fool 1883 Stories Two Letters 1883 Stories Twenty-Six (Excerpts from a Diary) 1883 Stories Two in One 1883 Stories The Only Remedy 1883 Stories The Examination 1883 Stories The Philanthropist 1883 Stories A Heroine of a Lady 1883 Stories A Proud Man 1883 Stories To Speak or to Be Silent? 1883 Stories The Crafty One 1883 Stories A Confession 1883 Stories From the Diary of a Young Lady 1883 Stories From the Diary of an Assistant Bookkeeper 1883 Stories Slander 1883 Stories A Little Something 1883 Stories A Little Something 1883 Stories The Collection 1883 Stories The Comic Actor 1883 Stories A Contract for the Year 1884, Concluded with Mankind 1883 Stories The Cat 1883 Stories A Goat, or a Scoundrel? 1883 Stories A Short Anatomy of Man 1883 Stories The Cross 1883 Stories The Liberal 1883 Stories The Sheet 1883 Stories M. P. 1883 Stories Marya Ivanovna 1883 Stories Mayonnaise 1883 Stories A Woman's Revenge 1883 Stories My Ranks and Titles 1883 Stories My Witticisms and Sayings 1883 Stories A Young Man 1883 Stories My Nana 1883 Stories Thoughts of a Reader of Newspapers and Journals 1883 Stories On the Nail 1883 Stories At a Magnetism Séance 1883 Stories On the Hunt 1883 Stories The Stationmaster 1883 Stories The Naive Wood-Sprite 1883 Stories A Few Thoughts on the Soul 1883 Stories A New Disease and an Old Remedy 1883 Stories How I Entered into Lawful Wedlock 1883 Stories O Women, Women! 1883 Stories Ober-Verkhi, or, The Height of Credulity 1883 Stories He Understood! 1883 Stories The Guardian 1883 Stories The Decoration 1883 Stories In Autumn 1883 Stories The Retired Slave 1883 Stories Rejected Love (Translated from the Spanish) 1883 Stories A Patriot of His Fatherland 1883 Stories Mixed-Up Announcements 1883 Stories The Choristers 1883

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1.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 5 January 1883. Moscow. 1883
2.   To N. A. Leikin, 12 January 1883. Moscow. 1883
3.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 January 1883. Moscow. 1883
4.   To G. P. Kravtsov, 29 January 1883. Moscow. 1883
5.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, 5 February 1883. Moscow. 1883
6.   To Al. P. Chekhov and A. I. Khrushcheva-Sokolnikova, 3–6 February 1883. Moscow. 1883
7.   To Al. P. Chekhov, February 1883. Moscow. 1883
8.   To N. A. Leikin, 1883. Moscow. 1883
9.   To A. N. Kanayev, 26 March 1883. Moscow. 1883
10.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 17–18 April 1883. Moscow. 1883
11.   To N. A. Leikin, 1883. Moscow. 1883
12.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 13 May 1883. Moscow. 1883
13.   To I. I. Babakin, 1883. Voskresensk. 1883
14.   To N. A. Leikin, 26 May 1883. Voskresensk. 1883
15.   To N. A. Leikin, 4 June 1883. Voskresensk. 1883
16.   To N. A. Leikin, 25 June 1883. Moscow. 1883
17.   To N. A. Leikin, 27 June 1883. Voskresensk. 1883
18.   To N. A. Leikin, 3 August 1883. Moscow. 1883
19.   To N. A. Leikin, 6 August 1883. Moscow. 1883
20.   To N. A. Leikin, 11 August 1883. Moscow. 1883
21.   To N. A. Leikin, 21–24 August 1883. Moscow. 1883
22.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, 24–25 August 1883. Moscow. 1883
23.   To M. I. Morozova, 27 August 1883. Moscow. 1883
24.   To N. A. Leikin, 5 September 1883. Moscow. 1883
25.   To N. A. Leikin, 19 September 1883. Moscow. 1883
26.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 15–28 October 1883. Moscow. 1883
27.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 20 October 1883. Moscow. 1883
28.   To I. P. Chekhov, October 1883. Moscow. 1883
29.   To Ye. I. Yunosheva, 2 November 1883. Moscow. 1883
30.   To N. A. Leikin, 10 December 1883. Moscow. 1883
31.   To N. A. Leikin, 25 December 1883. Moscow. 1883
32.   To N. A. Leikin, 31 December 1883. Moscow. 1883

Stories Fruits of Long Reflection 1883 Stories The Dowry 1883 Stories A Grateful German 1883 Stories Forgiveness 1883 Stories Patronage 1883 Stories Joy 1883 Stories A Story Hard to Give a Title To 1883 Stories Once a Year 1883 Stories A Conversation 1883 Stories A Doormat 1883 Stories The Tutor 1883 Stories The Turnip 1883 Stories The Zealot 1883 Stories The Lawyer's Novel 1883 Stories Mummers 1883 Stories Knights Without Fear and Reproach 1883 Stories A Collection for Children 1883 Stories The Congress of Naturalists in Philadelphia 1883 Stories The Swedish Match 1883 Stories Words, Words, and Words 1883 Stories A Case from Judicial Practice 1883 Stories A Classicist's Misfortune 1883 Stories The Death of a Government Clerk 1883 Stories A Reporter's Dream 1883 Stories Advice 1883 Stories Modern Prayers 1883 Stories List of Exhibitors Awarded Cast-Iron Medals in the Russian Section at the Amsterdam Exhibition 1883 Stories A Certified Copy 1883 Stories The Plain Truth 1883 Stories On a Dark Night 1883 Stories The Lawyer Mother-in-Law 1883 Stories Fat and Thin 1883 Stories The Triumph of the Victor 1883 Stories The Tragedian 1883 Stories Trifon 1883 Stories The Clever Yardkeeper 1883 Stories Gone 1883 Stories At the Barber's 1883 Stories In the Drawing Room 1883 Stories In the Landau 1883 Stories At Sea (a sailor's story) 1883 Stories In Moscow, on Trubnaya Square 1883 Stories At the Post Office 1883 Stories On Christmas Night 1883 Stories Vanka 1883 Stories The Willow 1883 Stories The Height of Loyalty 1883 Stories The Height of Civic-Mindedness 1883 Stories The Height of Absent-Mindedness 1883 Stories A Chip Off the Old Block 1883 Stories Questions and Answers 1883 Stories The Thief 1883 Stories A Poisonous Affair 1883 Stories The Lady Jurist 1883 Stories An Enigmatic Nature 1883 Stories Zakuska (Appetizers) 1883 Stories The Complaints Book 1883 Stories The Bridegroom 1883 Stories A Woman Without Prejudices 1883 Stories Biographies of Notable Contemporaries 1883 Stories The Bad Boy 1883 Stories A Sign of the Times 1883

Age 24. Graduates as a doctor and hangs his plate in Voskresensk; his first little book, Tales of Melpomene, appears. In December, blood from the lungs for the first time — he calls it bronchitis and looks away.

Stories Hopeless (A Sketch) 1884 Stories Marriage for Convenience (a novel in two parts) 1884 Stories Ferment of Minds 1884 Stories The Wallet 1884 Stories The Summer Girl 1884 Stories A Dacha Pleasure 1884 Stories Dacha Rules 1884 Stories The Case of the Year 1884 (From Our Correspondent) 1884 Stories The Diplomat 1884 Stories A Drama at the Hunt 1884 Stories A Drama at the Hunt (From the Notes of an Examining Magistrate) 1884 Stories The Examination for Rank 1884 Stories The Christmas Tree 1884 Stories Fintiflyushki 1884 Stories Ladies and Gentlemen, Townsfolk (Господа обыватели) 1884 Stories Goose Talk 1884 Stories The Chameleon 1884 Stories Surgery 1884 Stories Even the Beautiful Must Have Its Limits 1884 Stories The Ideal Examination 1884 Stories Idyll 1884 Stories Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire 1884 Stories Toward a Characterization of the Peoples 1884 Stories The Rigmarole 1884 Stories The Captain's Uniform 1884 Stories Pictures from the Recent Past 1884 Stories Chaos in Rome 1884 Stories Something About A. S. Dargomyzhsky 1884 Stories Krasnaya Gorka 1884 Stories The Kulachye's Nest 1884 Stories The Liberal Sweetheart 1884 Stories The Mask 1884 Stories Maslenitsa Rules of Discipline 1884 Stories Small Fry 1884 Stories At the Fete in Sokolniki 1884 Stories At the Cemetery 1884 Stories Proper Measures 1884 Stories Not Corruptive Thoughts 1884 Stories Not in the Mood 1884 Stories Unclean Tragedians and Leprous Playwrights 1884 Stories Incongruous Thoughts 1884 Stories Tears Invisible to the World 1884 Stories The Night Before the Trial 1884 Stories The Newest Letter-Writer's Guide 1884 Stories On Drama 1884 Stories On May 1884 Stories On March 1884 Stories This and That 1884 Stories On April 1884 Stories On August 1884 Stories On June and July 1884 Stories Both Better 1884

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1.   To D. T. Savelyev, 19 January 1884. Moscow. 1884
2.   To N. A. Leikin, 22 January 1884. Moscow. 1884
3.   To N. A. Leikin, 30 January 1884. Moscow. 1884
4.   To D. T. Savelyev, 1884. Moscow. 1884
5.   To D. T. Savelyev, 1884. Moscow. 1884
6.   To D. T. Savelyev, 1884. 1884
7.   To N. A. Leikin, 5–6 February 1884. Moscow. 1884
8.   To N. A. Leikin, 12–13 February 1884. Moscow. 1884
9.   To Ye. I. Savelyeva, 24 February 1884. Moscow. 1884
10.   To M. M. Chekhov, 15 April 1884. Moscow. 1884
11.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, 2–3 May 1884. Moscow. 1884
12.   To N. A. Leikin, 20–21 May 1884. Moscow. 1884
13.   To N. A. Leikin, 17 June 1884. Moscow. 1884
14.   To Ye. I. Yunosheva, 1884. Moscow. 1884
15.   To N. A. Leikin, 25 June 1884. Voskresensk. 1884
16.   To N. A. Leikin, 27 June 1884. Voskresensk. 1884
17.   To N. A. Leikin, 14 July 1884. Zvenigorod. 1884
18.   To Al. P. Chekhov, July 1884. Zvenigorod. 1884
19.   To N. A. Leikin, July 1884. Zvenigorod. 1884
20.   To P. G. Rozanov, 22 July 1884. Zvenigorod. 1884
21.   To N. A. Leikin, 11 August 1884. Voskresensk. 1884
22.   To N. A. Leikin, 23 August 1884. Voskresensk. 1884
23.   To M. P. Chekhova, 3 September 1884. Voskresensk. 1884
24.   To D. T. Savelyev, 4 September 1884. Moscow. 1884
25.   To N. A. Leikin, 15 September 1884. Moscow. 1884
26.   To P. G. Rozanov, October 1884. Moscow. 1884
27.   To N. A. Leikin, 7 October 1884. Moscow. 1884
28.   To P. G. Rozanov, 3 November 1884. Moscow. 1884
29.   To N. A. Leikin, 4 November 1884. Moscow. 1884
30.   To N. A. Leikin, 11 November 1884. Moscow. 1884
31.   To N. A. Leikin, 17 November 1884. Moscow. 1884
32.   To N. A. Leikin, 19 November 1884. Moscow. 1884
33.   To N. A. Leikin, 25 November 1884. Moscow. 1884
34.   To N. A. Leikin, 26 November 1884. Moscow. 1884
35.   To N. A. Leikin, 10 December 1884. Moscow. 1884
36.   To P. A. Sergeyenko, 17 December 1884. Moscow. 1884
37.   To N. A. Leikin, 23 December 1884. Moscow. 1884

Stories Letter to a Reporter 1884 Stories The Last of the Mohican Women 1884 Stories Rules for Beginning Authors 1884 Stories A Holiday Obligation 1884 Stories Holiday Money 1884 Stories Instruction (from Provincial Life) 1884 Stories A Man's Conversation with a Dog 1884 Stories Russian Coal 1884 Stories I Quarreled with My Wife (an incident) 1884 Stories Self-Deception (a tale) 1884 Stories The Bill 1884 Stories Office Notations 1884 Stories A Dream 1884 Stories A Terrible Night 1884 Stories The Wedding with the General (a story) 1884 Stories A Toast to the Prose-writers 1884 Stories At the Bedside of the Sick Man 1884 Stories At the Marshal's Widow's 1884 Stories The Threat 1884 Stories They Abolished It! 1884 Stories Oysters 1884 Stories At the Baths 1884 Stories In the Rooms 1884 Stories At the Almshouse for the Incurable and the Aged 1884 Stories Vint 1884 Stories The Vaudeville 1884 Stories The Crow 1884 Stories The Sign 1884 Stories A Fairground "Total" 1884 Stories The Tongue Will Get You to Kiev 1884 Stories The Problem 1884 Stories The Eclipse of the Moon 1884 Stories Woman from a Drunkard's Point of View 1884 Stories A Woman's Toast 1884 Stories A Living Chronology 1884 Stories Life is Wonderful! 1884

Age 25. Country practice, summers at Babkino with the Kiselyov family; begins writing longer pieces for the Petersburg Gazette. The comic mask starts admitting sadness.

Stories An Actor's Doom 1885 Stories The Impresario Under the Sofa 1885 Stories Anyuta 1885 Stories A Drunk Man's Conversation with a Sober Devil 1885 Stories Without a Position 1885 Stories Pancakes 1885 Stories Marriage Ten or Fifteen Years On 1885 Stories The Cynic 1885 Stories Summer Cottagers 1885 Stories The Operator 1885 Stories Children 1885 Stories Home Remedies 1885 Stories An Expensive Dog 1885 Stories Two Newspapermen 1885 Stories The Huntsman 1885 Stories The Foolish Frenchman 1885 Stories Grief 1885 Stories The Guest 1885 Stories Art 1885 Stories The Indian Rooster 1885 Stories An Intelligent Blockhead 1885 Stories Ivan Matveich 1885 Stories From the Memoirs of an Idealist 1885 Stories For the Wedding Season 1885 Stories For Husbands' Information 1885 Stories The Steed and the Trembling Doe 1885 Stories The Competition 1885 Stories The Double Bass and the Flute 1885 Stories The Cook Gets Married 1885 Stories A Horsy Name 1885 Stories The Dead Body 1885 Stories My Wives 1885 Stories My Conversation with Edison 1885 Stories My "She" 1885 Stories The Thinker 1885 Stories In a Foreign Land 1885 Stories He Cheated Them 1885 Stories The Burbot 1885 Stories Not Fated! 1885 Stories Something Serious 1885 Stories A Necessary Preface 1885 Stories Nerves 1885 Stories A Setback 1885 Stories Ninochka 1885 Stories A Night in the Cemetery 1885 Stories New Year's Great Martyrs 1885 Stories Well, the Public! 1885 Stories On the Transience of Things 1885 Stories General Education 1885 Stories A Father of a Family 1885 Stories The Discovery 1885 Stories The Requiem 1885 Stories The Commotion 1885 Stories Overdid It 1885 Stories A Personage 1885 Stories A First Debut 1885 Stories The Writer 1885 Stories Letters 1885

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1.   To M. E. Chekhov, 31 January 1885. Moscow. 1885
2.   To P. G. Rozanov, 18 February 1885. Moscow. 1885
3.   To N. A. Leikin, 22 March 1885. Moscow. 1885
4.   To N. A. Leikin, 1 April 1885. Moscow. 1885
5.   To P. G. Rozanov, 2 April 1885. Moscow. 1885
6.   To N. A. Leikin, 28 April 1885. Moscow. 1885
7.   To N. A. Leikin, 9 May 1885. Babkino. 1885
8.   To M. P. Chekhov, 10 May 1885. Babkino. 1885
9.   To P. G. Rozanov, May 1885. Babkino. 1885
10.   To M. M. Chekhov, 16 June 1885. Moscow. 1885
11.   To N. A. Leikin, 17 July 1885. Babkino. 1885
12.   To N. A. Leikin, 1885. Babkino. 1885
13.   To N. A. Leikin, 14 September 1885. Voskresensk. 1885
14.   To N. A. Leikin, 24–25 September 1885. Moscow. 1885
15.   To M. M. Chekhov, 25 September 1885. Moscow. 1885
16.   To N. A. Leikin, 30 September 1885. Moscow. 1885
17.   To M. V. Kiseleva, September 1885. Moscow. 1885
18.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 1 October 1885. Moscow. 1885
19.   To N. A. Leikin, 6–8 October 1885. Moscow. 1885
20.   To M. M. Chekhov, 1885. Moscow. 1885
21.   To N. A. Leikin, 12–13 October 1885. Moscow. 1885
22.   To P. G. Rozanov, 1885. Moscow. 1885
23.   To N. A. Leikin, 1885. Moscow. 1885
24.   To N. A. Leikin, 17 November 1885. Moscow. 1885
25.   To N. A. Leikin, 23 November 1885. Moscow. 1885
26.   To N. A. Leikin, 29 November 1885. Moscow. 1885
27.   To N. A. Leikin, December 1885. Moscow. 1885
28.   To N. A. Leikin, 28 December 1885. Moscow. 1885
29.   To Ye. I. Savelyeva, 2 January 1885. Moscow. 1885

Stories After the Benefit Performance 1885 Stories Psychopaths 1885 Stories An Advertisement 1885 Stories A Guide for Those Wishing to Marry. (Secret) 1885 Stories Mummers 1885 Stories A Fishy Business 1885 Stories The Biggest City 1885 Stories The Boots 1885 Stories Champagne 1885 Stories Murder Will Out (You Can't Hide an Awl in a Sack) 1885 Stories The Malingerers 1885 Stories Drowsy Stupor 1885 Stories A Remedy for the Drink 1885 Stories Old Age 1885 Stories The Village Elder 1885 Stories The Wall 1885 Stories The Guard Under Guard 1885 Stories The Whistlers 1885 Stories Holy Simplicity 1885 Stories The Tapёr 1885 Stories Misery 1885 Stories The Rag 1885 Stories At the Telephone 1885 Stories Sergeant Prishibeyev 1885 Stories The Drowned Man 1885 Stories At the Chemist's 1885 Stories In the Railway Carriage 1885 Stories The Witch 1885 Stories Visiting Cards 1885 Stories The Exclamation Mark 1885 Stories Medical Advice 1885 Stories Up the Staircase 1885 Stories The Strays 1885 Stories The Note 1885 Stories The Mirror 1885 Stories The Bridegroom and Papa 1885 Stories A Woman's Happiness 1885 Stories The Malefactor 1885

Age 26. The turning year. Suvorin's New Times invites him at triple rates and no line-limit; the venerable Grigorovich writes the famous letter — "respect your talent" — and Chekhov, shaken, answers that he will. Motley Stories published.

Stories Agafya 1886 Stories Oh, the Toothache! 1886 Stories The Chemist's Wife 1886 Stories Trouble 1886 Stories The Restless Guest 1886 Stories A Man (A Bit of Philosophy) 1886 Stories Someone Else's Trouble 1886 Stories Ladies 1886 Stories A Day in the Country 1886 Stories A Long Tongue 1886 Stories A Drama 1886 Stories The Playwright 1886 Stories The Rook 1886 Stories Grisha 1886 Stories The Chorus Girl 1886 Stories Good People 1886 Stories Kalkhas 1886 Stories A Nightmare 1886 Stories Who Is to Blame? 1886 Stories Superfluous People 1886 Stories A Literary Table of Ranks 1886 Stories Love 1886 Stories Dreams 1886 Stories Revenge 1886 Stories A Great Deal of Paper 1886 Stories My Domostroy 1886 Stories My Conversation with the Postmaster 1886 Stories The Husband 1886 Stories At the Summer Cottage 1886 Stories At the Mill 1886 Stories On the Road 1886 Stories On the River 1886 Stories The Dependents 1886 Stories An Unkind Night 1886 Stories An Exceptional Man 1886 Stories A Misfortune 1886 Stories Whining (A Letter from Far Away) 1886 Plays On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco 1886 Stories About Women 1886 Stories The Orator 1886 Stories From Boredom 1886 Stories The Poison 1886 Stories A First-Class Passenger 1886 Stories The Leading Man 1886

letters 88 letters

1.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 4 January 1886. Moscow. 1886
2.   To N. A. Leikin, 5 January 1886. Moscow. 1886
3.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, 10 January 1886. Moscow. 1886
4.   To N. A. Leikin, 12 January 1886. Moscow. 1886
5.   To P. G. Rozanov, 14 January 1886. Moscow. 1886
6.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, 16 January 1886. Moscow. 1886
7.   To V. V. Bilibin, 18 January 1886. Moscow. 1886
8.   To N. A. Leikin, 19 January 1886. Moscow. 1886
9.   To N. A. Leikin, 28 January 1886. Moscow. 1886
10.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, February 1886. Moscow. 1886
11.   To V. V. Bilibin, 1 February 1886. Moscow. 1886
12.   To N. A. Leikin, 3 February 1886. Moscow. 1886
13.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 3 February 1886. Moscow. 1886
14.   To R. R. Golike, 5 February 1886. Moscow. 1886
15.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 8–9 February 1886. Moscow. 1886
16.   To V. V. Bilibin, 14 February 1886. Moscow. 1886
17.   To N. A. Leikin, 16 February 1886. Moscow. 1886
18.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, 17 February 1886. Moscow. 1886
19.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, 20 February 1886. Moscow. 1886
20.   To R. R. Golike, 20 February 1886. Moscow. 1886
21.   To N. A. Leikin, 20 February 1886. Moscow. 1886
22.   To A. S. Suvorin, 21 February 1886. Moscow. 1886
23.   To N. A. Leikin, 25 February 1886. Moscow. 1886
24.   To V. V. Bilibin, 28 February 1886. Moscow. 1886
25.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, February 1886. Moscow. 1886
26.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, February 1886. Moscow. 1886
27.   To L. N. Trefolev, 1 March 1886. Moscow. 1886
28.   To N. A. Leikin, 4 March 1886. Moscow. 1886
29.   To N. A. Leikin, 8 March 1886. Moscow. 1886
30.   To V. V. Bilibin, 11 March 1886. Moscow. 1886
31.   To N. A. Leikin, 17 March 1886. Moscow. 1886
32.   To L. N. Trefolev, 20 March 1886. Moscow. 1886
33.   To D. V. Grigorovich, 28 March 1886. Moscow. 1886
34.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 29 March 1886. Moscow. 1886
35.   To N. A. Leikin, 31 March 1886. Moscow. 1886
36.   To N. P. Chekhov, March 1886. Moscow. 1886
37.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, April 1886. Moscow. 1886
38.   To V. V. Bilibin, 4 April 1886. Moscow. 1886
39.   To N. A. Leikin, 6 April 1886. Moscow. 1886
40.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 6 April 1886. Moscow. 1886
41.   To M. E. Chekhov, 11 April 1886. Moscow. 1886
42.   To N. A. Leikin, 13 April 1886. Moscow. 1886
43.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 14 April 1886. Moscow. 1886
44.   To N. A. Leikin, 19 April 1886. Moscow. 1886
45.   To M. P. Chekhov, 25 April 1886. Petersburg. 1886
46.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 26 April 1886. Petersburg. 1886
47.   To I. P. Chekhov, 28 April 1886. Petersburg. 1886
48.   To M. P. Chekhova, 6 May 1886. Petersburg. 1886
49.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 10 May 1886. Moscow. 1886
50.   To N. A. Leikin, 24 May 1886. Voskresensk. 1886
51.   To N. A. Leikin, 27 May 1886. Babkino. 1886
52.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 27 May 1886. Babkino. 1886
53.   To N. A. Leikin, 1886. Babkino. 1886
54.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 8 June 1886. Babkino. 1886
55.   To N. A. Leikin, 24 June 1886. Babkino. 1886
56.   To M. E. Chekhov, June 1886. Babkino. 1886
57.   To M. V. Kiseleva, June 1886. Babkino. 1886
58.   To Ye. K. Sakharova, 28 July 1886. Babkino. 1886
59.   To N. A. Leikin, 30 July 1886. Babkino. 1886
60.   To N. A. Leikin, 20 August 1886. Babkino. 1886
61.   To N. A. Leikin, 7 September 1886. Voskresensk. 1886
62.   To R. R. Golike, 11 September 1886. Moscow. 1886
63.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 12–16 September 1886. Moscow. 1886
64.   To N. A. Leikin, 20 September 1886. Moscow. 1886
65.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 21 September 1886. Moscow. 1886
66.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 29 September 1886. Moscow. 1886
67.   To N. A. Leikin, 30 September 1886. Moscow. 1886
68.   To N. A. Leikin, 7 October 1886. Moscow. 1886
69.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 19 October 1886. Moscow. 1886
70.   To N. A. Leikin, 23 October 1886. Moscow. 1886
71.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 29 October 1886. Moscow. 1886
72.   To N. A. Leikin, 1 November 1886. Moscow. 1886
73.   To N. A. Leikin, 6 November 1886. Moscow. 1886
74.   To A. S. Suvorin, 6 November 1886. Moscow. 1886
75.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 17–18 November 1886. Moscow. 1886
76.   To N. A. Leikin, 22 November 1886. Moscow. 1886
77.   To R. R. Golike, 1886. Petersburg. 1886
78.   To N. A. Leikin, 8 December 1886. Moscow. 1886
79.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 13 December 1886. Moscow. 1886
80.   To N. A. Leikin, 14 December 1886. Moscow. 1886
81.   To V. P. Burenin, 15 December 1886. Moscow. 1886
82.   To N. A. Leikin, 15–20 December 1886. Moscow. 1886
83.   To A. S. Suvorin, 21 December 1886. Moscow. 1886
84.   To N. A. Leikin, 24 December 1886. Moscow. 1886
85.   To A. S. Kiselev, 25 December 1886. Moscow. 1886
86.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 27–30 December 1886. Moscow. 1886
87.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, 1886. Moscow. 1886
88.   To P. A. Arkhangelsky, 1886. (?) Moskva. 1886

Stories The Proposal 1886 Stories A Work of Art 1886 Stories A Trivial Incident 1886 Stories Rara Avis 1886 Stories A Story Without an End 1886 Stories A Romance with a Double Bass 1886 Stories The Pink Stocking 1886 Stories The Lucky One 1886 Stories A Serious Step 1886 Stories A Little Joke 1886 Stories Strong Sensations 1886 Stories A Fairy Tale 1886 Stories The Boredom of Life 1886 Stories A Glossary for Young Ladies 1886 Stories An Event 1886 Stories A List of Persons Entitled to Free Admission 1886 Stories Statistics 1886 Stories Sufferers 1886 Stories Fears 1886 Stories A Bright Personality 1886 Stories On Holy Night 1886 Stories Talent 1886 Stories The Privy Councillor 1886 Stories The Mire 1886 Stories It Was She! 1886 Stories Sh-h-h! 1886 Stories Thou and You 1886 Stories Difficult People 1886 Stories The Teacher 1886 Stories At the Boarding School 1886 Stories To Paris! 1886 Stories In the Dark 1886 Stories In the Court 1886 Stories Vanka 1886 Stories In Spring 1886 Stories The Wolf 1886 Stories The Jubilee 1886 Stories The Commission 1886 Stories The Lodger 1886 Stories A Trifle of Life 1886 Stories A Man I Know 1886

Age 27. At Twilight published (it will bring the Pushkin Prize); exhausted, he travels the southern steppe of his boyhood; in November Ivanov premieres in Moscow to an uproar of cheers and hisses.

Stories Trouble 1887 Stories The Runaway 1887 Stories Without a Title 1887 Stories An Act of Lawlessness 1887 Stories A Defenceless Creature 1887 Stories The Good German 1887 Stories The Doctor 1887 Stories At Home 1887 Stories Expensive Lessons 1887 Stories A Drama 1887 Stories Cold Blood 1887 Stories A Happy Ending 1887 Stories Intrigues 1887 Plays Ivanov 1887 Stories From the Notes of a Hot-Tempered Man 1887 Stories Kashtanka 1887 Stories The Cossack 1887 Stories The Critic 1887 Plays Swan Song (Calchas) 1887 Stories The Lion and the Sun 1887 Stories Boys 1887 Stories Frost 1887 Stories The Avenger 1887 Stories During Holy Week 1887 Stories On the Eve of the Fast 1887 Stories An Evil Deed 1887 Stories Bad Weather 1887 Stories An Act of Carelessness 1887 Stories An Unpleasant Business 1887 Stories The Beggar 1887 Stories Obscure People 1887 Stories One of Many 1887 Stories The Father 1887 Stories Before the Eclipse 1887 Stories Tumbleweed 1887 Stories The Letter 1887

letters 133 letters

1.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 8 January 1887. Moscow. 1887
2.   To N. A. Leikin, 12 January 1887. Moscow. 1887
3.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 14 January 1887. Moscow. 1887
4.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 17 January 1887. Moscow. 1887
5.   To M. Ye. Chekhov, 18 January 1887. Moscow. 1887
6.   To A. S. Lazarev, 23 January 1887. Moscow. 1887
7.   To N. A. Leikin, 26 January 1887. Moscow. 1887
8.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 26 January 1887. Moscow. 1887
9.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 28 January 1887. Moscow. 1887
10.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 30 January 1887. Moscow. 1887
11.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 31 January 1887. Moscow. 1887
12.   To Al. P. Chekhov, February 1887. Moscow. 1887
13.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 3–4 February 1887. Moscow. 1887
14.   To N. A. Leikin, 8 February 1887. Moscow. 1887
15.   To A. S. Suvorin, 10 February 1887. Moscow. 1887
16.   To D. V. Grigorovich, 12 February 1887. Moscow. 1887
17.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 19–20 February 1887. Moscow. 1887
18.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 22–23 February 1887. Moscow. 1887
19.   To N. A. Leikin, 25 February 1887. Moskva*. 1887
20.   To the Chekhovs, 10 March 1887. Petersburg. 1887
21.   To M. P. Chekhova, 11–12 March 1887. Petersburg. 1887
22.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 11–12 March 1887. Petersburg. 1887
23.   To the Chekhovs, 13 March 1887. Petersburg. 1887
24.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 17 March 1887. Moscow. 1887
25.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 17 March 1887. Moscow. 1887
26.   To A. S. Suvorin, 18 March 1887. Moscow. 1887
27.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 19 March 1887. Moscow. 1887
28.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 21 March 1887. Moscow. 1887
29.   To N. A. Leikin, 21 March 1887. Moscow. 1887
30.   To G. M. Chekhov, 23 March 1887. Moscow. 1887
31.   To A. S. Suvorin, 27 March 1887. Moscow. 1887
32.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 27 March 1887. Moscow. 1887
33.   Letter to N. A. Leikin, March 28, 1887 1887
34.   To P. G. Rozanov, 1887. Moscow. 1887
35.   To N. A. Leikin, 30 March 1887. Moscow. 1887
36.   To M. P. Chekhova, 3 April 1887. Orel. 1887
37.   To M. P. Chekhova, 4 April 1887. Slavyansk. 1887
38.   To N. A. Leikin, 7 April 1887. Taganrog. 1887
39.   To the Chekhovs, 7 April 1887. Taganrog. 1887
40.   To the Chekhovs, 11 April 1887. Taganrog. 1887
41.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 11 April 1887. Taganrog. 1887
42.   To the Chekhovs, 19 April 1887. Taganrog. 1887
43.   To N. A. Leikin, 17 April 1887. Taganrog. 1887
44.   To M. P. Chekhova, 20 April 1887. Zverevo. 1887
45.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 20 April 1887. en route to Novocherkassk. 1887
46.   To M. P. Chekhova, 23 April 1887. Zverevo. 1887
47.   To the Chekhov Family, 25 April 1887. Cherkassk. 1887
48.   To M. P. Chekhova, 29 April 1887. en route to Ragozinu Balk. 1887
49.   To the Chekhovs, 30 April 1887. Ragozina Balka. 1887
50.   To G. M. Chekhov, 1 May 1887. Ragozina Balka. 1887
51.   To N. A. Leikin, 5 May 1887. Ragozina Balka". 1887
52.   To M. P. Chekhova, 5 May 1887. Chasov-Yar. 1887
53.   To the Chekhovs, 11 May 1887. Taganrog. 1887
54.   To N. A. Leikin, 14 May 1887. Taganrog. 1887
55.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 17 May 1887. Moscow. 1887
56.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 17 May 1887. Moscow. 1887
57.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 20 May 1887. Babkino. 1887
58.   To N. A. Leikin, 22 May 1887. Babkino. 1887
59.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 3 June 1887. Babkino. 1887
60.   To N. A. Leikin, 4 June 1887. Babkino. 1887
61.   To I. P. Chekhov, 4 June 1887. Babkino. 1887
62.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 5 June 1887. Babkino. 1887
63.   To A. A. Dolzhenko, 9 June 1887. Babkino. 1887
64.   To N. A. Leikin, 9 June 1887. Babkino. 1887
65.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 16 June 1887. Babkino". 1887
66.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 21 June 1887. Babkino. 1887
67.   To G. M. Chekhov, 23 June 1887. Babkino. 1887
68.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 26 June 1887. Babkino. 1887
69.   To A. S. Lazarev, 27–28 June 1887. Babkino. 1887
70.   To A. S. Lazarev, 30 June 1887. Babkino. 1887
71.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 7–8 July 1887. Babkino. 1887
72.   To A. S. Lazarev, 8 July 1887. Moscow. 1887
73.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 8–12 July 1887. Moscow. 1887
74.   To N. A. Leikin, 17 July 1887. Babkino. 1887
75.   To Al. P. Chekhov, July 1887. Babkino. 1887
76.   To A. S. Lazarev, August 1887. Babkino. 1887
77.   To Al. P. Chekhov, August 1887. Babkino. 1887
78.   To I. A. Belousov, 3 August 1887. Babkino. 1887
79.   To N. A. Leikin, 11 August 1887. Babkino. 1887
80.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 12 August 1887. Babkino. 1887
81.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 12 August 1887. Babkino. 1887
82.   To N. M. Yezhov and A. S. Lazarev, 13–14 August 1887. Babkino. 1887
83.   To N. A. Leikin, 21 August 1887. Babkino. 1887
84.   To N. A. Leikin, 2 September 1887. Moscow. 1887
85.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 3 September 1887. Moscow. 1887
86.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 7–8 September 1887. Moscow. 1887
87.   To Ya. A. Korneyev, 9 September 1887. Moscow. 1887
88.   To N. A. Leikin, 11 September 1887. Moscow. 1887
89.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 13 September 1887. Moscow. 1887
90.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 September 1887. Moscow. 1887
91.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 28 September 1887. Moscow. 1887
92.   L. N. Trefolev, 30 September 1887. Moscow. 30 Sept. 1887
93.   To F. O. Shekhtel, September 1887. Moscow. 1887
94.   To Ya. A. Korneyev, September 1887. Moscow. 1887
95.   To Ya. A. Korneyev, 1887. Moscow. 1887
96.   To N. M. Yezhov, 5 October 1887. Moscow. 1887
97.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 6–7 October 1887. Moscow. 1887
98.   To N. A. Leikin, 7 October 1887. Moscow. 1887
99.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 10–12 October 1887. Moscow. 1887
100.   To V. G. Korolenko, 17 October 1887. Moscow. 1887
101.   To G. M. Chekhov, 17 October 1887. Moscow. 1887
102.   To L. N. Trefolev, 19 October 1887. Moscow. 1887
103.   To I. K. Kondratyev, 21 October 1887. Moscow. 1887
104.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 21 October 1887. Moscow. 1887
105.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 21 October 1887. Moscow. 1887
106.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 24 October 1887. Moscow. 1887
107.   To N. M. Yezhov, 27 October 1887. Moscow. 1887
108.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 29 October 1887. Moscow. 1887
109.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 29 October 1887. Moscow. 1887
110.   To N. A. Leikin, 4 November 1887. Moscow. 1887
111.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 7 November 1887. Moscow. 1887
112.   To Ye. A. Sysoyeva, 7 November 1887. Moscow. 1887
113.   To A. S. Kiselev, 10 November 1887. Moscow. 1887
114.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 10 November 1887. Moscow. 1887
115.   To A. S. Lazarev, 15 November 1887. Moscow. 1887
116.   To N. A. Leikin, 15 November 1887. Moscow. 1887
117.   To the Society of Russian Dramatic Writers and Opera Composers, 16 November 1887. Moscow. 1887
118.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 20 November 1887. Moscow. 1887
119.   To A. S. Kiselev, 24 November 1887. Moscow. 1887
120.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 24 November 1887. Moscow. 1887
121.   To A. S. Lazarev, 26 November 1887. Moscow. 1887
122.   To M. P. Chekhova, 30 November 1887. Petersburg. 1887
123.   To V. N. Davydov, 1 December 1887. Petersburg. 1887
124.   To the Chekhovs, 3 December 1887. Petersburg. 1887
125.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 15 December 1887. Petersburg. 1887
126.   I. L. Leontyev (Shcheglov), Between 16 and 20 December 1887. Moscow. 1887
127.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 December 1887. Moscow. 1887
128.   N. A. Leikin, 27 December 1887. Moscow. 1887
129.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 27 December 1887. Moscow. 1887
130.   To V. N. Davydov, December 1887. Moscow. 1887
131.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 30 March 1888. Moscow. 1887
132.   To M. P. Chekhova, 14 July 1888. Feodosia. 1887
133.   To N. M. Yezhov, 8 August 1888. Sumy. 1887

Stories The Kiss 1887 Stories The Post 1887 Stories Polinka 1887 Stories An Incident (A Coachman's Tale) 1887 Stories Drunk 1887 Stories Too Early! 1887 Stories Happiness 1887 Stories The Siren 1887 Stories First Aid 1887 Stories The Examining Magistrate 1887 Stories The Old House (A Landlord's Story) 1887 Stories The Wedding 1887 Stories The Shepherd's Pipe 1887 Stories A Secret 1887 Stories Darkness 1887 Stories Typhus 1887 Stories The Boa Constrictor and the Rabbit 1887 Stories In the Barn 1887 Stories Verochka 1887 Stories In Spring (A Scene-Monologue) 1887 Stories Volodya 1887 Stories Enemies 1887 Stories The Meeting 1887 Stories The Lottery Ticket 1887 Stories A Problem 1887 Stories Life's Trials 1887 Stories Zinochka 1887 Stories The Wrongdoers 1887

Age 28. The Steppe appears in the Northern Herald — the official crossing from the comic press into literature — and the Academy awards him the Pushkin Prize. He is twenty-eight and famous.

Stories Peasant Women 1888 Stories The Duel 1888 Stories Gusev 1888 Stories The Name-Day Party 1888 Stories The Princess 1888 Stories The Beauties 1888 Plays The Bear 1888 Stories Unpublished. Unfinished [draft of] "The Beauties" 1888 Stories An Unpleasantness 1888 Stories Lights 1888 Stories The Bet 1888

letters 213 letters

1.   To I. L. Leontyev, 1 January 1888. Moscow. 1888
2.   To A. Ya. Lipskerov, 1 January 1888. Moscow. 1888
3.   To V. N. Davydov, 3 January 1888. Moscow. 1888
4.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 6 January 1888. Moscow. 1888
5.   To V. G. Korolenko, 9 January 1888. Moscow. 1888
6.   To I. L. Leontyev, 10 January 1888. Moscow. 1888
7.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 10–11 January 1888. Moscow. 1888
8.   To D. V. Grigorovich, 12 January 1888. Moscow. 1888
9.   To A. S. Kiselev, 1888. Moscow. 1888
10.   To Ya. P. Polonsky, 18 January 1888. Moscow. 1888
11.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 19 January 1888. Moscow. 1888
12.   To I. L. Leontyev, 22 January 1888. Moscow. 1888
13.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 23 January 1888. Moscow. 1888
14.   Georgy M. Gusopoulo, January 29, 1888. Moscow. 1888
15.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 3 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
16.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 3 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
17.   To A. S. Lazarev, 4 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
18.   To I. L. Leontyev, 4 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
19.   To D. V. Grigorovich, 5 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
20.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 5 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
21.   To A. L. Selivanova, 6 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
22.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 9 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
23.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 9 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
24.   To G. M. Chekhov, 9 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
25.   To I. L. Leontyev, 10 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
26.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 10 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
27.   To N. A. Khlopov, 13 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
28.   To A. S. Kiselev, 15 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
29.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 15 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
30.   To I. L. Leontyev, 22 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
31.   To Ya. P. Polonsky, 22 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
32.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 23 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
33.   To N. A. Leikin, 26 February 1888. Moscow. 1888
34.   Ivan Leontyevich Leontyev (Shcheglov), February 28, 1888. Moscow. 1888
35.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 4 March 1888. Moskva". 1888
36.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 6 March 1888. Moscow. 1888
37.   To N. A. Leikin, 7 March 1888. Moscow. 1888
38.   To V. N. Davydov, 7–10 March 1888. 1888
39.   To M. P. Chekhov, 16 March 1888. Petersburg. 1888
40.   To A. S. Lazarev, 22 March 1888. Moscow. 1888
41.   To N. A. Khlopov, 22 March 1888. Moscow. 1888
42.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 24 March 1888. Moscow. 1888
43.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 25 March 1888. Moscow. 1888
44.   To Ya. P. Polonsky, 25 March 1888. Moscow. 1888
45.   To A. S. Lazarev, 25–26 March 1888. Moscow. 1888
46.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 27 March 1888. Moscow. 1888
47.   To N. A. Leikin, 29 March 1888. Moscow. 1888
48.   To A. N. Maslov, 29 March 1888. Moscow. 1888
49.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 31 March 1888. Moscow. 1888
50.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 31 March 1888. Moscow. 1888
51.   To T. S. Savelyev, 1 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
52.   To G. M. Chekhov, 1 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
53.   To A. S. Suvorin, 3 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
54.   To I. L. Leontyev, 4 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
55.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 4 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
56.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 4 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
57.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 5 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
58.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 5 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
59.   A. N. Maslov (Bezhetsky), 7 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
60.   To V. G. Korolenko, 9 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
61.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 9 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
62.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 11–12 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
63.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 14 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
64.   To L. N. Trefolev, 14 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
65.   To L. N. Trefolev, 14 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
66.   To I. L. Leontyev, 15 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
67.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 17 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
68.   To I. L. Leontyev, 18 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
69.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 18–24 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
70.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 20 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
71.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 21 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
72.   To Ya. A. Korneyev, 21–23 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
73.   To V. N. Davydov, 23 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
74.   To N. A. Leikin, 23 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
75.   To M. P. Chekhov, 24–25 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
76.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 25 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
77.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 25 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
78.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 1888. Moscow. 1888
79.   To A. I. Leman, 30 April 1888. Moscow. 1888
80.   To V. G. Korolenko, 2 May 1888. Moscow. 1888
81.   To I. L. Leontyev, 3 May 1888. Moscow. 1888
82.   To P. A. Sergeyenko, 4 May 1888. Moscow. 1888
83.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 4 May 1888. Moscow. 1888
84.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 4 May 1888. Moscow. 1888
85.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 1888. Sumy. 1888
86.   To I. P. Chekhov, 7–8 May 1888. Sumy. 1888
87.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 10 May 1888. Sumy. 1888
88.   To I. L. Leontyev, 10 May 1888. Sumy. 1888
89.   Ivan Pavlovich Chekhov, 10 May 1888. Sumy. 1888
90.   To N. A. Leikin, 11 May 1888. Sumy. 1888
91.   To A. S. Kiselev, 15 May 1888. Sumy. 1888
92.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 17 May 1888. Sumy. 1888
93.   To I. P. Chekhov, 23 May 1888. Sumy. 1888
94.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 27 May 1888. Sumy. 1888
95.   To V. G. Korolenko, 1888. Sumy. 1888
96.   To A. S. Suvorin, 30 May 1888. Sumy. 1888
97.   To I. L. Leontyev, 9 June 1888. Sumy. 1888
98.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 10 June 1888. Sumy. 1888
99.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 11 June 1888. Vorozhba. 1888
100.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 12 June 1888. Sumy. 1888
101.   To N. A. Leikin, 21 June 1888. Sumy. 1888
102.   To A. S. Lazarev, 26 June 1888. Sumy. 1888
103.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 28 June 1888. Sumy. 1888
104.   Aleksey Sergeyevich Suvorin, 28 June 1888. Sumy. 1888
105.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 4 July 1888. Sumy. 1888
106.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 5–6 July 1888. Sumy. 1888
107.   To I. L. Leontyev, 18 July 1888. Feodosia. 1888
108.   To the Chekhovs, 23 July 1888. Feodosia. 1888
109.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 24 July 1888. Parokhod "Yunona". 1888
110.   To I. P. Chekhov, 27 July 1888. Poti. 1888
111.   To F. Ya. Dolzhenko, 28 July 1888. Tiflis. 1888
112.   To M. P. Chekhov, 28 July 1888. Parokhod "Dir". 1888
113.   To N. N. Zlatovratsky, 8 August 1888. Sumy. 1888
114.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 12 August 1888. Sumy. 1888
115.   To N. A. Leikin, 12 August 1888. Sumy. 1888
116.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 13 August 1888. Sumy. 1888
117.   To I. L. Leontyev, 14 August 1888. Sumy. 1888
118.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 16 August 1888. Sumy. 1888
119.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 20 August 1888. Sumy. 1888
120.   To I. P. Chekhov, 22 August 1888. Sumy. 1888
121.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 27 August 1888. Sumy. 1888
122.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 28 August 1888. Sumy. 1888
123.   To A. S. Suvorin, 29 August 1888. Sumy. 1888
124.   To A. S. Lazarev, 31 August 1888. Sumy. 1888
125.   To G. M. Chekhov, 10 September 1888. Moscow. 1888
126.   A. S. Suvorin, 11 September 1888. Moscow. 1888
127.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 11 September 1888. Moscow. 1888
128.   To I. L. Leontyev, 14 September 1888. Moscow. 1888
129.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 15 September 1888. Moscow. 1888
130.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 17 September 1888. Moscow. 1888
131.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 23 September 1888. Moscow. 1888
132.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 24 September 1888. Moscow. 1888
133.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 30 September 1888. Moscow. 1888
134.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 1 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
135.   To A. S. Suvorin, 2 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
136.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 4 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
137.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 4 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
138.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, 5 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
139.   To N. A. Lei Kin, 5 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
140.   To A. S. Suvorin, 5–6 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
141.   To A. S. Suvorin, 7 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
142.   To D. V. Grigorovich, 9 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
143.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 9 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
144.   To Ye. M. Lintvareva, 9 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
145.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 20 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
146.   To A. S. Suvorin, 10 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
147.   To A. K. Sheller-Mikhaylov, 10 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
148.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 10–11 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
149.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 13 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
150.   To A. S. Suvorin, 14 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
151.   To A. N. Maslov, October 1888. Moscow. 1888
152.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 17 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
153.   To A. S. Suvorin, 18 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
154.   To A. S. Kiselev, 20 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
155.   To A. S. Lazarev, 20 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
156.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 20 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
157.   To A. S. Suvorin, 24 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
158.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 25 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
159.   To A. P. Lensky, 26 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
160.   To E. M. Lintvareva, 27 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
161.   To A. S. Suvorin, 27 October 1888. Moscow. 1888
162.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 2 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
163.   To I. L. Leontyev, 2 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
164.   To Ye. A. Sysoyeva, 2 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
165.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 3 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
166.   To A. S. Suvorin, 3 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
167.   To N. A. Leikin, 5 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
168.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 6 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
169.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 6–7 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
170.   To I. L. Leontyev, 7 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
171.   To A. S. Suvorin, 7 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
172.   To N. A. Leikin, 8 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
173.   To A. S. Lazarev, 10 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
174.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 10 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
175.   To I. L. Leontyev, 11 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
176.   To A. S. Suvorin, 11 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
177.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 13 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
178.   To A. S. Suvorin, 15 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
179.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 16 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
180.   To I. L. Leontyev, 16–17 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
181.   To A. S. Suvorin, 18 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
182.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 18 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
183.   To Ye. M. Lintvareva, 23 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
184.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 23 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
185.   To A. S. Suvorin, 24–25 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
186.   To A. S. Suvorin, 28 November 1888. Moscow. 1888
187.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 1 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
188.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 2 December 1888. en route to Petersburg. 1888
189.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 2 December 1888. en route to Petersburg. 1888
190.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 8 December 1888. Petersburg. 1888
191.   To A. P. Lensky, 8 December 1888. Petersburg. 1888
192.   To an unidentified recipient, 11 December 1888. Petersburg. 1888
193.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, 13 December 1888. Petersburg. 1888
194.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 13 December 1888. Petersburg. 1888
195.   To P. P. Gnedich, 15 December 1888. Petersburg. 1888
196.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 16 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
197.   To A. S. Suvorin, 17 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
198.   To A. S. Suvorin, 18 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
199.   To A. S. Suvorin, 19 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
200.   To I. L. Leontyev, 20 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
201.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 20 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
202.   To N. A. Leikin, 22 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
203.   To N. A. Nikulina, 22 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
204.   To N. A. Leikin, 23 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
205.   To A. S. Suvorin, 23 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
206.   To D. V. Grigorovich, 24 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
207.   To S. P. Kuvshinnikova, 25 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
208.   To A. S. Suvorin, 26 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
209.   To A. S. Suvorin, 28 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
210.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 30 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
211.   To A. S. Suvorin, 30 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
212.   To I. L. Leontyev, 31 December 1888. Moscow. 1888
213.   To Ye. M. Lintvareva, December 1888. Moscow. 1888

Plays The Proposal 1888 Stories A Nervous Breakdown 1888 Stories The Cobbler and the Devil 1888 Stories A Sudden Horse's Death, or the Magnanimity of the Russian People! 1888 Stories A Dreary Story 1888 Stories Sleepy 1888 Stories The Steppe: The Story of a Journey 1888 Stories In Moscow 1888 Stories Thieves 1888 Stories A Forced Declaration 1888 Stories The Wife 1888

Age 29. The cruelest year: his brother Nikolai dies of tuberculosis in June — the disease that will take him too — and The Wood Demon fails on stage. He shelves the play; years later it becomes Uncle Vanya.

Plays The Wood Demon 1889

letters 183 letters

1.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 2 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
2.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 2 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
3.   To A. S. Suvorin, 3 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
4.   To V. N. Davydov, 4 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
5.   To A. S. Suvorin, 4 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
6.   To A. S. Suvorin, 4 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
7.   To A. S. Suvorin, 5 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
8.   To A. P. Lensky, 6 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
9.   To A. S. Suvorin, 6 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
10.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, 7 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
11.   To A. S. Suvorin, 7 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
12.   To A. S. Suvorin, 7 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
13.   To F. A. Fedorov, 8 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
14.   To A. S. Suvorin, 8 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
15.   To Ye. K. Sakharova, 13 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
16.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 15 January 1889. Moscow. 1889
17.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 19 January 1889. Petersburg. 1889
18.   To V. N. Davydov, 22–23 January 1889. Petersburg. 1889
19.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 23–24 January 1889. Petersburg. 1889
20.   To M. P. Chekhov, January 1889. Petersburg. 1889
21.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 3 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
22.   To D. T. Savelyev, 4 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
23.   To A. S. Suvorin, 4 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
24.   To A. S. Suvorin, 6 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
25.   To A. M. Yevreinova, 8 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
26.   To A. S. Suvorin, 8 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
27.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 10 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
28.   To N. M. Lintvareva, 11 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
29.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 11 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
30.   To N. N. Obolonsky, 12–13 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
31.   To A. S. Suvorin, 13 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
32.   To A. S. Suvorin, 14 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
33.   To L. N. Lenskaya, 15–16 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
34.   To A. M. Yevreinova, 17 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
35.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 17 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
36.   To I. L. Leontyev, 18 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
37.   To A. P. Lensky, 20 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
38.   To A. S. Suvorin, 20 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
39.   To N. A. Leikin, 21 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
40.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 21 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
41.   To N. A. Leikin, 24 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
42.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
43.   To I. M. Kondratyev, 28 February 1889. Moscow. 1889
44.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 2 March 1889. Moscow. 1889
45.   To I. M. Kondratyev, 5 March 1889. Moscow. 1889
46.   To A. S. Suvorin, 5 March 1889. Moscow. 1889
47.   To P. A. Gaydeburov, 6 March 1889. Moscow. 1889
48.   To P. A. Sergeyenko, 6 March 1889. Moscow. 1889
49.   To A. S. Suvorin, 6 March 1889. Moscow. 1889
50.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 7 March 1889. Moscow. 1889
51.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 7 March 1889. Moscow. 1889
52.   To A. M. Yevreinova, 10 March 1889. Moscow. 1889
53.   To I. L. Leontyev, 11 March 1889. Moscow. 1889
54.   To A. S. Suvorin, 11 March 1889. Moscow. 1889
55.   To I. L. Leontyev, 16 March 1889. Moscow. 1889
56.   To I. L. Leontyev, 21–22 March 1889. Moscow. 1889
57.   To N. A. Leikin, 27 March 1889. Moscow. 1889
58.   To N. N. Obolonsky, 29 March 1889. Moscow. 1889
59.   To N. N. Obolonsky, April 1889. Moscow. 1889
60.   To A. S. Suvorin, 8 April 1889. Moscow. 1889
61.   To P. N. Isakov, 9 April 1889. Moscow. 1889
62.   To A. P. Lensky, 9 April 1889. Moscow. 1889
63.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 9 April 1889. Moscow. 1889
64.   To N. A. Leikin, 10 April 1889. Moscow. 1889
65.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 11 April 1889. Moscow. 1889
66.   To A. S. Suvorin, 11 April 1889. Moscow. 1889
67.   To I. L. Leontyev, 12 April 1889. Moscow. 1889
68.   To Ye. M. Lintvareva, 17 April 1889. Moscow. 1889
69.   To A. S. Suvorin, 17 April 1889. Moscow. 1889
70.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 19 April 1889. Moscow. 1889
71.   To N. N. Obolonsky, 20 April 1889. Moscow. 1889
72.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 22 April 1889. Moscow. 1889
73.   To A. S. Suvorin, 22 April 1889. Moscow. 1889
74.   To N. N. Obolonsky, 23 April 1889. Moscow. 1889
75.   To V. N. Davydov, 26 April 1889. Sumy. 1889
76.   To M. P. Chekhova, 26 April 1889. Sumy. 1889
77.   To M. P. Chekhova, 28 April 1889. Sumy. 1889
78.   To I. P. Chekhov, May 1889. Sumy. 1889
79.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 2 May 1889. Sumy. 1889
80.   To A. S. Suvorin, May 1889. Sumy. 1889
81.   To A. S. Suvorin, 4 May 1889. Sumy. 1889
82.   To I. L. Leontyev, 6 May 1889. Sumy. 1889
83.   To A. S. Suvorin, 7 May 1889. Sumy. 1889
84.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 8 May 1889. Sumy. 1889
85.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 14 May 1889. Sumy. 1889
86.   To A. S. Suvorin, 14 May 1889. Sumy. 1889
87.   To A. S. Suvorin, 15 May 1889. Sumy. 1889
88.   To I. M. Kondratyev, 18 May 1889. Sumy. 1889
89.   To N. A. Leikin, 22 May 1889. Sumy. 1889
90.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 31 May 1889. Sumy. 1889
91.   To N. N. Obolonsky, 4 June 1889. Sumy. 1889
92.   To A. S. Suvorin, 9 June 1889. Sumy. 1889
93.   To N. N. Obolonsky, 17 June 1889. Sumy. 1889
94.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 18 June 1889. Sumy. 1889
95.   To M. M. Dyukovsky, 24 June 1889. Sumy. 1889
96.   To P. A. Sergeyenko, 25 June 1889. Sumy. 1889
97.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 26 June 1889. Sumy. 1889
98.   To A. S. Suvorin, 2 July 1889. Sumy. 1889
99.   To I. P. Chekhov, 16 July 1889. Parokhod "Olga". 1889
100.   To I. M. Kondratyev, 18 July 1889. Yalta. 1889
101.   To M. P. Chekhova, 18 July 1889. Yalta. 1889
102.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 3 August 1889. Yalta. 1889
103.   To V. K. Mitkevich, 12 August 1889. Sumy. 1889
104.   To N. A. Leikin, 13 August 1889. Sumy. 1889
105.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 13 August 1889. Sumy. 1889
106.   To I. L. Leontyev, 29 August 1889. Sumy. 1889
107.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 3 September 1889. Sumy. 1889
108.   To F. A. Kumanin, 5 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
109.   To V. S. Likhachev, 5 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
110.   To A. A. Maykov, 5 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
111.   To Ye. M. Lintvareva, 6 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
112.   To A. M. Yevreinova, 7 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
113.   To A. A. Suvorin, 7 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
114.   To V. S. Likhachev, 8 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
115.   To F. A. Kumanin, 9 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
116.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 9 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
117.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 13 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
118.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 14 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
119.   To I. L. Leontyev, 18 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
120.   To A. Dmitriyev, 21 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
121.   To A. M. Yevreinova, 24 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
122.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 24 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
123.   To A. P. Lensky, 27 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
124.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 30 September 1889. Moscow. 1889
125.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 6 October 1889. Moscow. 1889
126.   To A. P. Lensky, 7–8 October 1889. Moscow. 1889
127.   To Ye. M. Lintvareva, 8 October 1889. Moscow. 1889
128.   To F. A. Kumanin, 10 October 1889. Moscow. 1889
129.   To P. I. Chaykovsky, 12 October 1889. Moscow. 1889
130.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 12–13 October 1889. Moscow. 1889
131.   To A. S. Suvorin, 13 October 1889. Moscow. 1889
132.   To P. I. Chaykovsky, 14 October 1889. Moscow. 1889
133.   To A. S. Suvorin, 15 October 1889. Moscow. 1889
134.   To Ya. A. Korneyev, October 1889. Moscow. 1889
135.   To A. S. Suvorin, 17 October 1889. Moscow. 1889
136.   To I. L. Leontyev, 21 October 1889. Moscow. 1889
137.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 21 October 1889. Moscow. 1889
138.   To A. S. Suvorin, 23 October 1889. Moscow. 1889
139.   To A. S. Suvorin, 28 October 1889. Moskva/. 1889
140.   To A. S. Lazarev, 1 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
141.   To A. S. Suvorin, 1 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
142.   To A. P. Lensky, 2 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
143.   To A. S. Suvorin, 5 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
144.   To A. M. Yevreinova, 7 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
145.   To N. A. Leikin, 7 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
146.   To A. S. Suvorin, 7 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
147.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 7 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
148.   To V. A. Goltsev, 8 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
149.   To N. N. Obolonsky, 8 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
150.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 8 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
151.   To A. Ya. Glame-Meshcherskaya, 9 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
152.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 11 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
153.   To A. S. Suvorin, 12 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
154.   To A. S. Suvorin, 15 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
155.   To L. N. Lenskaya, 15 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
156.   To A. S. Suvorin, 15 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
157.   To F. A. Chervinsky, 16 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
158.   To A. P. Lensky, 19 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
159.   To A. S. Suvorin, 20 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
160.   To A. S. Lazarev, 23 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
161.   To N. S. Tikhonravov, 23 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
162.   To L. S. Suvorin, 25 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
163.   To A. I. Sumbatov, 25 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
164.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 27 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
165.   To A. S. Suvorin, 27 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
166.   To N. N. Obolonsky, 29–30 November 1889. Moscow. 1889
167.   To N. N. Obolonsky, December 1889. Moscow. 1889
168.   To I. M. Kondratyev, 2 December 1889. Moscow. 1889
169.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 3 December 1889. Moscow. 1889
170.   To A. S. Suvorin, 5 December 1889. Moscow. 1889
171.   To A. S. Suvorin, 7 December 1889. Moscow. 1889
172.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 7 December 1889. Moscow. 1889
173.   To A. P. Lensky, 8 December 1889. Moscow. 1889
174.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 12 December 1889. Moscow. 1889
175.   To A. I. Sumbatov, 14 December 1889. Moscow. 1889
176.   To N. N. Obolonsky, December 1889. Moscow. 1889
177.   To Redaktor "smolenskogo Vestnika", December 1889. Moscow. 1889
178.   To A. S. Suvorin, 20 December 1889. Moscow. 1889
179.   To N. A. Leikin, 25 December 1889. Moscow. 1889
180.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 25 December 1889. Moscow. 1889
181.   To A. S. Suvorin, 27 December 1889. Moscow. 1889
182.   To A. I. Sumbatov, 27–28 December 1889. Moscow. 1889
183.   To I. M. Kondratyev, 28 December 1889. Moscow. 1889

Plays The Wedding 1889 Plays Tatyana Repina 1889 Plays A Tragedian in Spite of Himself 1889

Age 30. Sakhalin. Across Siberia by cart, barge, and fever to the penal island, where he single-handedly censuses some ten thousand convicts and settlers, hut by hut; home by sea past Hong Kong and Ceylon.

Nonfiction From Siberia 1890 Plays The Night Before the Trial 1890

letters 126 letters

1.   To F. A. Chervinsky, 18 August 1391. Bogimovo. 1890
2.   To A. A. Kiseleva, 8 January 1890. Petersburg. 1890
3.   To F. A. Kumanin, 8 January 1890. Petersburg. 1890
4.   To M. P. Chekhova, 14 January 1890. Petersburg. 1890
5.   To N. M. Kozhin, 17 January 1890. Petersburg. 1890
6.   To M. I. Chaykovsky, 17 January 1890. Petersburg. 1890
7.   To M. N. Galkin-Vrasky, 20 January 1890. Petersburg. 1890
8.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 26 January 1890. Petersburg. 1890
9.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 28 January 1890. Petersburg. 1890
10.   To N. M. Yezhov, 28 January 1890. Petersburg. 1890
11.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 28 January 1890. Petersburg. 1890
12.   To I. M. Kondratyev, 28 January 1890. Petersburg. 1890
13.   To A. I. Sumbatov, 28 January 1890. Petersburg. 1890
14.   To M. P. Chekhov, 28 January 1890. Petersburg. 1890
15.   To A. I. Sumbatov, 1890. Petersburg. 1890
16.   To S. N. Filippov, 2 February 1890. Petersburg. 1890
17.   To S. N. Filippov, 7 February 1890. Moscow. 1890
18.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 9 February 1890. Moscow. 1890
19.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 10 February 1890. Moscow. 1890
20.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 15 February 1890. Moscow. 1890
21.   To M. I. Chaykovsky, 16 February 1890. Moscow. 1890
22.   To A. S. Suvorin, 17 February 1890. Moscow. 1890
23.   To A. S. Suvorin, 20 February 1890. Moscow. 1890
24.   To A. S. Suvorin, 23 February 1890. Moscow. 1890
25.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 25 February 1890. Moscow. 1890
26.   To A. S. Suvorin, 28 February 1890. Moscow. 1890
27.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 3 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
28.   To A. S. Suvorin, 4 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
29.   To N. M. Lintvareva, 5 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
30.   To I. M. Kondratyev, 7 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
31.   To A. I. Sumbatov, 8 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
32.   To N. N. Obolonsky, 9 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
33.   To A. S. Suvorin, 9 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
34.   To A. I. Sumbatov, 10–11 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
35.   To A. S. Lazarev, 13 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
36.   To A. S. Suvorin, 15 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
37.   To A. P. Lensky, 16 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
38.   To I. L. Leontyev, 16 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
39.   To M. I. Chaykovsky, 16 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
40.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 17 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
41.   To A. S. Suvorin, 17 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
42.   To I. L. Leontyev, 22 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
43.   To A. S. Suvorin, 22 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
44.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 27 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
45.   To A. S. Suvorin, 29 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
46.   To R. R. Golike, 31 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
47.   To N. A. Leikin, 31 March 1890. Moscow. 1890
48.   To A. S. Suvorin, 1 April 1890. Moscow. 1890
49.   To V. M. Lavrov, 10 April 1890. Moscow. 1890
50.   To A. S. Suvorin, 11 April 1890. Moscow. 1890
51.   To F. A. Chervinsky, 12 April 1890. Moscow. 1890
52.   To N. A. Leikin, 13 April 1890. Moscow. 1890
53.   To K. S. Barantsevich, 15 April 1890. Moscow. 1890
54.   To A. S. Suvorin, 15 April 1890. Moscow. 1890
55.   To M. I. Chaykovsky, 16 April 1890. Moscow. 1890
56.   To A. S. Suvorin, 18 April 1890. Moscow. 1890
57.   To S. N. Filippov, 18 April 1890. Moscow. 1890
58.   To A. P. Lensky, 21 April 1890. Moscow. 1890
59.   To the Chekhovs, 23 April 1890. Volga, parokhod "Aleksandr Nevsky". 1890
60.   To S. P. Kuvshinnikova, 23 April 1890. Volga, parokhod "Aleksandr Nevsky". 1890
61.   To M. P. Chekhov, 23 April 1890. Volga, parokhod "Perm--Nizhny". 1890
62.   To the Chekhovs, 24 April 1890. Kama, parokhod "Perm--Nizhny". 1890
63.   To N. N. Obolonsky, 29 April 1890. Yekaterinburg. 1890
64.   To the Chekhovs, 29 April 1890. Yekaterinburg. 1890
65.   To K. G. Foti, 3 May 1890. Tyumen. 1890
66.   To Ye. Ya. Chekhova, 4 May 1890. Ishim. 1890
67.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 7 May 1890. U Irtysha. 1890
68.   To A. S. Kiselev, 7–15 May 1890. en route to Tomsk. 1890
69.   To the Chekhovs, 17 May 1890. Krasnyy Yar -- Tomsk. 1890
70.   To A. S. Suvorin, 20 May 1890. Tomsk. 1890
71.   To the Chekhovs, 20 May 1890. Tomsk. 1890
72.   To the Chekhovs, 25 May 1890. Mariinsk. 1890
73.   To the Chekhovs, 27 May 1890. Achinsk. 1890
74.   To V. A. Dolgorukov, 28 May 1890. Krasnoyarsk (?). 1890
75.   To A. S. Suvorin, 28 May 1890. Krasnoyarsk. 1890
76.   To the Chekhovs, 28 May 1890. Krasnoyarsk. 1890
77.   To the Chekhovs, 31 May 1890. Kansk. 1890
78.   To the Chekhovs, 4 June 1890. Pod Irkutskom. 1890
79.   To N. A. Leikin, 5 June 1890. Irkutsk. 1890
80.   To I. L. Leontyev, 5 June 1890. Irkutsk. 1890
81.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 5 June 1890. Irkutsk. 1890
82.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 5 June 1890. Irkutsk. 1890
83.   To the Chekhovs, 6 June 1890. Irkutsk. 1890
84.   To the Chekhovs, 7 June 1890. Irkutsk. 1890
85.   To the Chekhovs, 7 June 1890. Irkutsk. 1890
86.   To the Chekhovs, 13 June 1890. Listvenichnaya. 1890
87.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 13 June 1890. Listvenichnaya. 1890
88.   To the Chekhovs, 20 June 1890. Shilka, parokhod "Ermak". 1890
89.   To N. A. Leikin, 20 June 1890. Shilka pod Gorbitsei. 1890
90.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 20 June 1890. Amur, parokhod "Ermak". 1890
91.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 21 June 1890. Amur pod Pokrovskoy, parokhod "Ermak". 1890
92.   To A. S. Suvorin, 21 June 1890. Amur pod Pokrovskoy, parokhod "Ermak". 1890
93.   To the Chekhovs, 21 June 1890. Amur pod Pokrovskoy. 1890
94.   To the Chekhovs, 26 June 1890. Ot Pokrovskoy do Blagoveshchenska. 1890
95.   To A. S. Suvorin, 27 June 1890. Blagoveshchensk. 1890
96.   To P. Ye. Chekhov, 28 June 1890. Radde. 1890
97.   To the Chekhovs, 29 June 1890. Pod Khabarovkoy, parokhod "Muravyev". 1890
98.   To the Chekhovs, 1 July 1890. Nikolayevsk. 1890
99.   To V. A. Gilyarovsky, 7 July 1890. Nikolayevsk. 1890
100.   To the Chekhovs, 11 July 1890. Sakhalin. 1890
101.   To N. M. Lintvareva, 16 July 1890. Sakhalin. 1890
102.   To M. P. Chekhova, 17 July 1890. Sakhalin. 1890
103.   To M. P. Chekhova, 14 August 1890. Sakhalin. 1890
104.   To I. P. Chekhov, 30 August 1890. Sakhalin. 1890
105.   To the Chekhovs, 7 September 1890. Sakhalin. 1890
106.   To A. S. Suvorin, 11 September 1890. Tatarsky proliv, parokhod "Baykal". 1890
107.   To Ye. Ya. Chekhova, 6 October 1890. Post Korsakovsky. 1890
108.   To M. P. Chekhov, 16 October 1890. Vladivostok. 1890
109.   To M. P. Chekhov, 5 December 1890 1890
110.   To M. P. Chekhova, 6 December 1890. Vorozhba. 1890
111.   To M. P. Chekhov, 6 December 1890. Fastov. 1890
112.   To A. S. Suvorin, 9 December 1890. Moscow. 1890
113.   To N. A. Leikin, 10 December 1890. Moscow. 1890
114.   To I. L. Leontyev, 10 December 1890. Moscow. 1890
115.   To I. P. Chekhov, 10 December 1890. Moscow. 1890
116.   To F. A. Kumanin, 10 December 1890. Moscow. 1890
117.   To F. A. Kumanin, December 1890. Moscow. 1890
118.   To A. S. Suvorin, 17 December 1890. Moscow. 1890
119.   To A. S. Suvorin, 19 December 1890. Moscow. 1890
120.   To A. S. Suvorin, 23 December 1890. Moscow. 1890
121.   To A. S. Suvorin, 24 December 1890. Moscow. 1890
122.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 25 December 1890. Moscow. 1890
123.   To I. L. Leontyev, 26 December 1890. Moscow. 1890
124.   To N. A. Leikin, 27 December 1890. Moscow. 1890
125.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 27 December 1890. Moscow. 1890
126.   To G. M. Chekhov, 29 December 1890. Moscow. 1890

Age 31. First European tour — Vienna, Venice, Rome, Monte Carlo, Paris; in the autumn, unpaid famine-relief work in the starving provinces; The Duel runs through the year.

letters 202 letters

1.   To A. S. Suvorin, 28 August 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
2.   To A. S. Suvorin, 30 August 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
3.   To Ye. M. Shavrova, 2 September 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
4.   To I. I. Gorbunov-Posadov, 4 September 1891. Moscow. 1891
5.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 7 September 1891. Moscow. 1891
6.   To A. S. Suvorin, 8 September 1891. Moscow. 1891
7.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 14 September 1891. Moscow. 1891
8.   To F. A. Chervinsky, 14 September 1891. Moscow. 1891
9.   To I. M. Kondratyev, 15 September 1891. Moscow. 1891
10.   To Ye. M. Shavrova, 16 September 1891. Moscow. 1891
11.   To I. I. Gorbunov-Posadov, 17 September 1891. Moscow. 1891
12.   To A. A. Kiselev, 17 September 1891. Moscow. 1891
13.   To M. N. Albov, 30 September 1891. Moscow. 1891
14.   To Ye. P. Yegorov, 5 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
15.   To V. M. Sobolevsky, 7 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
16.   To V. I. Gerye, 8 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
17.   To V. A. Vagner, 10 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
18.   To A. S. Suvorin, 10 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
19.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 11 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
20.   To N. A. Leikin, 12 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
21.   To A. S. Suvorin, 13 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
22.   To A. S. Suvorin, 16 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
23.   To P. I. Chaykovsky, 18 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
24.   To A. S. Suvorin, 20 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
25.   To M. N. Albov, 22 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
26.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 24 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
27.   To N. M. Lintvareva, 25 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
28.   To A. S. Suvorin, 26 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
29.   To F. A. Chervinsky, 25 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
30.   To A. S. Suvorin, 28 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
31.   To A. S. Suvorin, 30 October 1891. Moscow. 1891
32.   To A. I. Smagin, 7 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
33.   To A. I. Urusov, 9 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
34.   To I. S. Vologdin, 13 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
35.   To A. I. Smagin, 13 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
36.   To K. M. Fofanov, 14 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
37.   To A. S. Suvorin, 15 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
38.   To A. S. Suvorin, 18 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
39.   To E. M. Shavrova, 19 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
40.   To M. N. Albov, 20 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
41.   To A. I. Smagin, 21 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
42.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 21 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
43.   To A. S. Suvorin, 22 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
44.   To A. I. Smagin, 24 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
45.   To A. S. Suvorin, 26 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
46.   To A. I. Smagin, 1891. Moscow. 1891
47.   To A. S. Suvorin, 27 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
48.   To A. P. Lensky, 29 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
49.   To A. S. Suvorin, 30 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
50.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 30 November 1891. Moscow. 1891
51.   To L. Ya. Gurevich, 2 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
52.   To N. A. Leikin, 2 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
53.   To A. S. Kiselev, 8 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
54.   To A. S. Suvorin, 3 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
55.   To A. S. Suvorin, 4 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
56.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 8 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
57.   To A. I. Smagin, 10 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
58.   To Ye. P. Yegorov, 11 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
59.   To A. I. Smagin, 11 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
60.   To A. S. Suvorin, 11 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
61.   To A. S. Suvorin, 13 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
62.   To M. N. Albov, 14 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
63.   To Ye. P. Yegorov, 14 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
64.   To N. M. Lintvareva, 14 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
65.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 14 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
66.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 14 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
67.   To I. L. Leontyev, 15 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
68.   To A. S. Suvorin, 15 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
69.   To A. I. Smagin, 16 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
70.   To S. F. Rassokhin, 17 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
71.   To A. S. Suvorin, 17 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
72.   To A. S. Suvorin, 19 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
73.   To Ye. P. Yegorov, 20 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
74.   To S. A. Andreyevsky, 25 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
75.   To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 25 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
76.   To Ye. P. Yegorov, 26 December 1891. Moscow. 1891
77.   To N. M. Garshina, 27 December 1891. Petersburg. 1891
78.   To the Chekhovs, 31 December 1891. Petersburg. 1891
79.   To A. S. Suvorin, 5 March 1891. Moscow. 1891
80.   To V. O. Kononovich, 5 January 1891. Moscow. 1891
81.   To A. S. Suvorin, 5 January 1891. Moscow. 1891
82.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 7 January 1891. Moscow. 1891
83.   To M. P. Chekhova, 9–10 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
84.   To L. S. Mizinova, 11 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
85.   To Ye. M. Shavrova, 11 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
86.   To P. N. Isakov, 13 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
87.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 13 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
88.   To M. P. Chekhova, 14 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
89.   To M. P. Chekhova, 16 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
90.   To V. O. Mikhnevich, 17 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
91.   To M. I. Chaykovsky, 17 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
92.   To the Chekhovs, 18 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
93.   To Ye. M. Shavrova, 18 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
94.   To P. N. Isakov, 20 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
95.   To A. S. Lazarev, 21 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
96.   To L. S. Mizinova, 21 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
97.   To A. F. Koni, 26 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
98.   To I. P. Chekhov, 27 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
99.   To Ye. M. Shavrova, 28 January 1891. Petersburg. 1891
100.   To I. A. Bunin, 30 January 1891. Moscow. 1891
101.   To Ye. M. Shavrova, 30 January 1891. Moscow. 1891
102.   To A. S. Suvorin, 31 January 1891. Moscow. 1891
103.   To A. S. Suvorin, 5 February 1891. Moscow. 1891
104.   To A. S. Suvorin, 6 February 1891. Moscow. 1891
105.   To A. I. Urusov, 6 February 1891. Moscow. 1891
106.   To I. P. Chekhov, 1891. Moscow. 1891
107.   To F. A. Kumanin, 13 February 1891. Moscow. 1891
108.   To A. I. Sumbatov, 13 February 1891. Moscow. 1891
109.   To I. M. Kondratyev, 14 February 1891. Moscow. 1891
110.   To I. N. Sakharov, 6 February 1891. Moscow. 1891
111.   To A. I. Urusov, 17 February 1891. Moscow. 1891
112.   To V. O. Kononovich, 19 February 1891. Moscow. 1891
113.   To A. M. Kondratyev, 22 February 1891. Moscow. 1891
114.   To A. I. Urusov, 22 February 1891. Moscow. 1891
115.   To A. S. Suvorin, 23 February 1891. Moscow. 1891
116.   To V. O. Kononovich, 27 February 1891. Moscow. 1891
117.   To A. P. Lensky, 27 February 1891. Moscow. 1891
118.   To A. I. Sumbatov, 27 February 1891. Moscow. 1891
119.   To A. I. Urusov, 4 March 1891. Moscow. 1891
120.   To Ye. M. Shavrova, 6 March 1891. Moscow. 1891
121.   To I. S. Vologdin, 8 March 1891. Moscow. 1891
122.   To Ye. M. Shavrova, 8 March 1891. Moscow. 1891
123.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 11 March 1891. Moscow. 1891
124.   To F. A. Kumanin, 11 March 1891. Moscow. 1891
125.   To A. I. Sumbatov, 11 March 1891. Moscow. 1891
126.   To Ye. M. Shavrova, 11 March 1891. Moscow. 1891
127.   To M. Ye. Chekhov, 13 March 1891. Petersburg. 1891
128.   To I. P. Chekhov, 13 March 1891. Petersburg. 1891
129.   To M. P. Chekhova, 16 March 1891. Petersburg. 1891
130.   To M. P. Chekhova, 16 March 1891. Petersburg. 1891
131.   To M. P. Chekhova, 17 March 1891. Petersburg. 1891
132.   To M. P. Chekhova, 19 March 1891. en route to Ven. 1891
133.   To the Chekhovs, 1891. Vienna. 1891
134.   To I. P. Chekhov, 1891. Venice. 1891
135.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 1891. Venice. 1891
136.   To the Chekhovs, 1891. Venice. 1891
137.   To M. Ye. Chekhov, 1891. Venice. 1891
138.   To the Chekhovs, 1891. Venice. 1891
139.   To the Chekhovs, 1891. Bolonya. 1891
140.   To the Chekhovs, 1891. Florence. 1891
141.   To I. L. Leontyev, 1891. Florence. 1891
142.   To the Chekhovs, 1891. Florence. 1891
143.   To M. V. Kiseleva, April 1891. Rome. 1891
144.   To the Chekhovs, April 1891. Rome. 1891
145.   To M. Ye. Chekhov, April 1891. Rome. 1891
146.   To I. P. Chekhov, April 1891. Rome. 1891
147.   To the Chekhovs, April 1891. Naples. 1891
148.   To the Chekhovs, April 1891. Naples. 1891
149.   To N. M. Lintvareva, April 1891. Rome. 1891
150.   To the Chekhovs, April 1891. Finalmarina. 1891
151.   To the Chekhovs, April 1891. Nice. 1891
152.   To the Chekhovs, April 1891. Monte Carlo. 1891
153.   To the Chekhovs, April 1891. Nice. 1891
154.   To the Chekhovs, April 1891. Nice. 1891
155.   To the Chekhovs, 1891. Paris. 1891
156.   To the Chekhovs, 1891. Paris. 1891
157.   To M. Ye. Chekhov, 1891. Paris. 1891
158.   To I. M. Kondratyev, 1891. Paris. 1891
159.   To the Chekhovs, 1891. Paris. 1891
160.   To I. P. Chekhov, 1891. Paris. 1891
161.   To V. G. Chertkov, 2 May 1891. Moscow. 1891
162.   To A. I. Urusov, 3 May 1891. Moscow. 1891
163.   To I. P. Chekhov, 4 May 1891. Aleksin. 1891
164.   To A. S. Suvorin, 7 May 1891. Aleksin. 1891
165.   To A. A. Dolzhenko, 8 May 1891. Aleksin. 1891
166.   To A. S. Suvorin, 10 May 1891. Aleksin. 1891
167.   To A. S. Suvorin, 13 May 1891. Aleksin. 1891
168.   To A. A. Dolzhenko, 14 May 1891. Aleksin. 1891
169.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 4–15 May 1891. Aleksin. 1891
170.   To I. P. Chekhov, 15 May 1891. Aleksin. 1891
171.   To L. S. Mizinova, 17 May 1891. Aleksin. 1891
172.   To A. S. Suvorin, 18 May 1891. Aleksin. 1891
173.   To A. S. Suvorin, 20 May 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
174.   To L. S. Mizinova, 23 May 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
175.   To A. S. Suvorin, 27 May 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
176.   To A. S. Suvorin, 27 May 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
177.   To Ye. M. Shavrova, 28 May 1891. Aleksin. 1891
178.   To A. S. Suvorin, 4 June 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
179.   To L. S. Mizinova, 12 June 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
180.   To A. S. Suvorin, 16 June 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
181.   To L. S. Mizinova, 20 June 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
182.   To Ye. M. Shavrova, 20 June 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
183.   To A. S. Suvorin, 25 June 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
184.   To F. A. Chervinsky, 2 July 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
185.   To M. P. Chekhova, 5 July 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
186.   To N. M. Lintvareva, 5 July 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
187.   To A. S. Suvorin, 13 July 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
188.   To I. I. Gorbunov-Posadov, 18 July 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
189.   To M. V. Kiseleva, 20 July 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
190.   To A. S. Suvorin, 24 July 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
191.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 24–25 July 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
192.   To A. A. Dolzhenko, 29 July 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
193.   To A. S. Suvorin, 29 July 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
194.   To L. S. Mizinova, July 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
195.   To L. S. Mizinova, July 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
196.   To L. S. Mizinova, July 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
197.   To A. S. Suvorin, 6 August 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
198.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 6 August 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
199.   To M. N. Albov, 14 August 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
200.   To Avgustin Vrzal, 14 August 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
201.   To A. S. Suvorin, 18 August 1891. Bogimovo. 1891
202.   To A. S. Suvorin, 18 August 1891. Bogimovo. 1891

Plays The Anniversary 1891 Notebooks Notebooks. Diaries 1891

Age 32. Buys the little estate of Melikhovo south of Moscow — house, garden, debts — and doctors the whole district without fee through the cholera summer. Ward No. 6, his darkest story, appears.

Stories A Woman's Kingdom 1892 Stories The Black Monk 1892 Stories The Story of a Commercial Venture 1892 Stories From an Old Schoolmaster's Notebook 1892 Stories A Fragment 1892 Stories Ward No. 6 1892

letters 43 letters

1.   To N. M. Yezhov, 2 January 1892. Petersburg. 1892
2.   To Ye. P. Yegorov, 3 January 1892. Petersburg. 1892
3.   To A. I. Smagin, 4 January 1892. Petersburg. 1892
4.   To N. M. Yezhov, 7 January 1892. Petersburg. 1892
5.   To N. M. Garshina, 10 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
6.   To A. S. Suvorin, 10 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
7.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 10 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
8.   To M. K. Zankovetskaya, 12 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
9.   To D. V. Garin-Vinding, 13 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
10.   To the Board of the Moscow Zoological Garden, 14 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
11.   To A. I. Smagin, 14 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
12.   To N. M. Lintvareva, 18 January 1892. Derevnya Belaya. 1892
13.   To A. S. Suvorin, 22 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
14.   To V. A. Gilyarovsky, 24 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
15.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 24 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
16.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 24 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
17.   To Ye. P. Yegorov, 26 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
18.   To F. A. Kumanin, 26 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
19.   To A. I. Smagin, 26 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
20.   To Ye. P. Yegorov, 29 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
21.   To A. I. Smagin, 30 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
22.   To A. I. Urusov, 31 January 1892. Moscow. 1892
23.   To Ye. M. Shavrova, 1 February 1892. Moscow. 1892
24.   To A. S. Lazarev, 2 February 1892. Moscow. 1892
25.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 2 February 1892. Moscow. 1892
26.   To G. G. Lepnev, 3 February 1892. Voronezh. 1892
27.   To M. P. Chekhova, 3 February 1892. Voronezh. 1892
28.   To Ye. P. Yegorov, 6 February 1892. Voronezh. 1892
29.   To F. O. Shekhtel, 8 February 1892. Selo Khrenovoye. 1892
30.   To M. P. Chekhova, 9 February 1892. Bobrov. 1892
31.   To A. S. Lazarev, 18 February 1892. Moscow. 1892
32.   To L. A. Avilova, 21 February 1892. Moscow. 1892
33.   To D. V. Garin-Vinding, 21 February 1892. Moscow. 1892
34.   To V. V. Bilibin, 22 February 1892. Moscow. 1892
35.   To I. M. Kondratyev, 22 February 1892. Moscow. 1892
36.   To V. A. Tikhonov, 22 February 1892. Moscow. 1892
37.   To Ye. M. Shavrova, 22 February 1892. Moscow. 1892
38.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 23 February 1892. Moscow. 1892
39.   To Ye. M. Shavrova, 24–25 February 1892. Moscow. 1892
40.   To Ye. P. Yegorov, 25 February 1892. Moscow. 1892
41.   To A. S. Suvorin, 28 February 1892. Moscow. 1892
42.   To Al. P. Chekhov, 28 February 1892. Moscow. 1892
43.   To N. N. Obolonsky, 29 February 1892. Moscow. 1892

Stories The Grasshopper 1892 Stories After the Theatre 1892 Stories An Anonymous Story 1892 Stories The Head Gardener's Story 1892 Stories A Fish's Love 1892 Stories Rothschild's Fiddle 1892 Stories Neighbors 1892 Stories Fear 1892 Stories The Student 1892 Stories The Teacher of Literature 1892 Stories In Exile 1892 Stories At the Manor 1892 Stories Big Volodya and Little Volodya 1892