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Index
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A
“Aborigines” (“Obivateli”), 305–306, 405
“About Women” (“O Zhenshchinakh”), 105, 401
“Actor’s End, An” (“Akterskaya Gibel’ ”), 27, 400
“Adventure: A Driver’s Story” (“Proisshestvie: Rasskaz Yamshchika”), 292, 296–297, 405
“Agafya,” 54, 70–72, 75–76, 400
Alarm Clock, The, 58, 161, 179–180, 211–212, 215, 293, 328
“Amateur Peasant-Girl, The,” 245
Anna Karenina, xvii, 133, 139–140, 159, 175, 259, 265
“Anniversary, The” (“Yubiley”), 202, 403
Anton Chekhov: A Life, xvii
“Anyuta,” 38–39, 400
“Art” (“Xhudozhestvo”), 7–8, 399
“Assignment, The” (“Zakaz”), 200–201, 403
“At a Summer Villa” (“Na Dache”), 112, 401
“At the Lighthouse,” 327
“At the Mill” (“Na Mel’nitse”), 190–191, 403
“Avenger, An” (“Mstitel’ ”), 339, 405
B
“Bad Business, A” (“Nedobroe Delo”), 256–257, 404
“Bad Night: Sketches” (“Nedobraya Noch’: Nabroski”), 187–188, 403
“Bad Weather” (“Nenast’e”), 311–312, 405
Bartlett, Rosamund, xvii, 44, 103–104
“Before the Eclipse: Snippets from the Spectacle” (“Pered Zatmeium: Otryvok iz Feerii”), 328, 405
“Beggar, The” (“Nishchiy”), 225–226, 404
“Behavior of Husbands, The” (“K Svedeniyu Muzhei”), 292
“Big Wig, The” (“Persona”), 41–42, 400
“Biggest City, The” (“Samyi Bol’shoi Gorod”), 20, 400
Bilibin, Viktor 1886–1887, xix, 16–17, 24–28, 38, 40–41, 61–62, 85–87, 104–107, 116–117, 144–146, 182, 185–186
1887–1888, 211–212, 215, 225, 251, 320, 330–332, 338, 385, 392
“Bliny,” 28, 35, 400
“Blunder, A,” 400
“Boa Constrictor and Rabbit” (“Udav i Krolik”), 292, 404
Boborykin, P. D., 42
“Boredom of Life, The” (“Skuka Zhizni”), 106, 112–115, 122
“Boys” (“Mal’chiki”), 386–387, 406
Burenin, Viktor Petrovich, 11, 75, 345, 357, 374
“Busted!” (“Sorvalos’!”), 13
C
Carter, Richard, 86
“Cat, The,” 276–277, 293, 405
“Cattle-Dealers, The” (“Kholodnaya Krov’ ”), 357, 364–366, 370, 405
“Champagne (Thoughts from a New Year’s Hangover)” (“Shampanskoe (Mysli s Novogodnego pokhmel’ya)”), 6, 399
“Champagne: A Wayfarer’s Story” (“Shampanskoe: Rasskaz Prokhodimtsa”), 213, 404
Chekhonte, Antosha, 4–5, 21–27, 37–38, 74–77, 215, 223. See also Chekhov, Anton
Chekhov, Alexander 1886–1887, 6, 8–12, 14–18, 25–26, 44–46, 49–51, 54–55, 75, 87–88, 99, 108–109, 121, 161, 179, 191–192, 197–199, 203, 206
1887–1888, 212–214, 222–223, 226, 242–245, 251, 265–267, 271, 274–277, 284, 294–295, 303–304, 307, 313, 319, 322–323, 327, 337–338, 345–346, 356–363, 367, 370, 374–375, 391
1888–1889, xiii–xv
Chekhov, Anton 1880–1885, xiv, 3–8, 16–17, 44, 86, 396
1885–1886, xv, 3–8, 16–17, 24, 74–77, 100–101, 110–111
1886–1887, ix–xii, xv–xvii, 3–207, 395–397, 399–404
1887–1888, ix–xii, xv–xvii, 209–397, 399, 404–406
1888–1889, x–xv, xix, 60, 101, 153, 286, 319, 352, 356–359, 392, 395–397, 406
1890–1899, 4, 70, 80, 86, 115, 150, 190, 193, 270, 316, 349, 376, 388–398
1900–1904, x, 17, 37, 101, 126, 337, 396
appearance of, 4, 347
award for, 359–360, 396
biographies of, ix–xii, xiv–xv, xvii–xix
birth of, xii
children’s stories by, x, 18, 18–19, 21, 104, 205–206, 206, 340, 357, 387–390
daily routines of, xi–xix, 21, 124, 250–251
death of, x, 37, 126, 397
description of, ix–xix, 4, 7–8, 347
diary of, xvi, 281–286, 295–304
as doctor, ix–x, xvi, 3–5, 21–23, 40–41, 86, 178, 180, 214, 231–232, 319
early years of, ix–xv, xii–xiv, 42–43, 43
education of, xii–xiv
emotional state of, x–xii
fame for, 83–147, 149–207, 223, 255, 359–362, 388–398
father of, ix–x, xii–xv, 33, 89–90, 116, 143, 149, 165–166, 173–176, 199, 223, 283, 302, 320–322, 358
home of, 3, 6, 36, 53, 104–110, 110, 111–119, 119, 120–123, 127–129, 143, 149, 149–207, 218, 221, 245, 261, 280, 294, 304–319, 323, 330–335, 370
illnesses of, x, 15, 44, 47, 73, 82–83, 86, 125–126, 128–129, 150, 231, 265–267, 282–283, 397
imagination of, x–xii, xv–xv, 19, 26–27, 81, 91–97, 267–269, 309–310, 333–340, 349–359, 379–385, 397
later years of, 37, 86, 101, 126, 150, 153, 190–193, 230, 270, 286, 316, 337, 349–398
list of stories by, 399–406
marriage of, 230, 397
as mentor, ix, 160, 180–181, 212, 250, 352–354, 362
mother of, xiii, xv, xviii, 47, 143, 168, 191, 199, 223
pen names of, 4–5, 21–27, 37–38, 62, 74–77, 80, 206–207, 215, 223