U.R. Bowie on Russian Literature

During his famous trip to visit the penal settlements in the Far East (Sakhalin Island), Chekhov arrived in the provincial city of Blago...

My favorite photograph of Anton Chekhov. Here he sits in the middle of a company of famous actors, each of them acting like crazy for th...

CHEKHOV WINKS AT TOLSTOY: (2) The Good Country Life One of Tolstoy’s obsessions throughout much of his life was his dream of good co...

Tolstoy, Gorky and Chekhov CHEKHOV WINKING AT TOLSTOY: (1) On love and adultery. Throughout nearly all of the years of Chekho...

What was Chekhov's favorite novel? What was Bunin's, Nabokov's? The answer to all three questions is Anna Karenina . Chekh...

NATURE DESCRIPTIONS Modern readers tend to skip nature descriptions and get back to the action of the story. But if you are a good ...

                        FRAMING THE NARRATIVE, THE ENCASEMENT OF LOVE One thing that makes Chekhov a great writer is his intuitiv...

КРЫЖОВНИК  GOOSEBERRIES Chekhov’s “Little Trilogy” The Theme of Encasement (Two): Universality In all three stories of Chek...

Notes to Chekhov’s “Little Trilogy” The Theme of “Encasement” (One) All three of the stories of “The Little Trilogy” are about t...

Notes on Chekhov’s “Little Trilogy” INFLUENCES “Man in a Case,” “Gooseberries,” “About Love.” Anton Chekhov wrote his thre...

Biographical Ten Final Flight of the Buffleheaded Goo-Goo Bird (1846-1852) The preacher in Gogol was now in total cont...

Postage Stamp Commemorating Publication of "The Overcoat" in 1842 The diver, the seeker for pearls, the man who p...

In March, 1837, Gogol moved on to Rome and immediately fell in love with the place. Rome remained with him an obsession for many year...

FRONT MATTER OF THE BOOK: ГОГОЛЯ ГОЛОВА GOGOL’S HEAD Or Skullduggery Or The Misadventures of a Purloined Skull ...

Icon of the Three-Handed, St. Nicholas Cathedral, St. Petersburg Троеручица (The Three-Handed) Moscow, February, 1842 ...