THE COOK’S WEDDING
Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven,
was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping
through the keyhole. In the kitchen something
extraordinary, and in ...
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The Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) is among the major short-story writers and dramatists of modern times.During the last half of the 19th century the old order in Russia was crumbl...
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Anton Chekhov is today one of the most widely known authors of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Appreciated not only in Russia and the West but also in Asia, he was a master of the short story, ...
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