Reference Guide to Russian Literature

Born in Taganrog, 29 January 1860. Attended a school for Greek boys, Taganrog, 1867-68; Taganrog grammar school, 1868-79; Moscow University Medical School, 1879-84. Practised medicine in Moscow, 1884-92; worked in Melikhovo, 1892-99, and in Yalta from 1899. Wrote for humorous magazines while still in medical school; began to publish in St Petersburg daily papers, Peterburgskaia gazeta, from 1885, and Novoe vremia, from 1886. Travelled across Siberia to Sakhalin Island, where he undertook a study of social and economic conditions, 1890; published the results of his research as Ostrov Sakhalin ( The Island: A Journey to Sakhalin), 1895. Suffered from tuberculosis; forced to live as a semi-invalid after a severe haemorrhage of the lungs, 1897. Recipient: Pushkin Prize, 1888. Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1900 (resigned 1902). Married: the actress, Ol'ga Knipper in 1901. Died in Badenweiler, Germany, 15 July 1904.

Tales, translated by Constance Garnett, 13 vols. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Macmillan, 1916-22.

Polnoe sobranie sochinenii i pisem [ Complete Works and Letters], 20 vols. Moscow, 1944-51.

Plays, translated by Elisaveta Fen.Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1959.

Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories, translated by David Magarshack . Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1964.

The Oxford Chekhov, edited and translated by Ronald Hingley, 9 vols. London, Oxford University Press, 1964-80; excerpted in "The World's Classics", Oxford, Oxford University Press, as Seven Stories, 1974; Eleven Stories, 1975; Five Major Plays, 1977; The Russian Master and Other Stories, 1984; Ward Number Six and Other Stories, 1988; A Woman's Kingdom and Other Stories, 1989; The Princess and Other Stories, 1990; The Steppe and Other Stories, 1991; Twelve Plays, 1992.

Polnoe sobranie sochinenii i pisem, 30 vols. Moscow, 1974-83.

Plays, edited and translated by Eugene K. Bristow. New York, Norton, 1977.

The Kiss and Other Stories, translated by Ronald Wilks. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1982.

Plays, translated by Michael Frayn. London and New York, Methuen, 1982; revised editions, 1988, 1993.

The Early Stories 1883-1888, edited and translated by Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher. London, John Murray, 1982; London, Abacus, 1984; Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994.

The Duel and Other Stories, translated by Ronald Wilks. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1984.

The Party and Other Stories, translated by Ronald Wilks. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1985.

The Fiancee and Other Stories, translated by Ronald Wilks. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1986.

The Chekhov Omnibus: Selected Stories, translated by Constance Garnett, revised and edited by Donald Rayfield. London, Everyman, 1994.

Chekhov's Major Plays: Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, and The Three Sisters, translated by Karl Kramer and Margaret Booker. Lanham, Maryland, University Press of America, 1996.

The Plays of Anton Chekhov, translated by Paul Schmidt. New York, HarperCollins, 1997.

"Drama na okhote" [ Drama on a Hunt]. 1884-85; translated as The Shooting Party, by A. E. Chamot, edited by Julian Symons , London, Andre Deutsch, 1986.

"Step"'. 1888; translated as "The Steppe". " Skuchnaia istoriia". 1889; translated as " A Dreary Story"; also as " A Boring Story"; and as " A Tedious Story".

"Duel"'. 1891; translated as "The Duel".

"Poprygun'ia". 1892; translated as "The Grasshopper".

"Palata No. 6". 1892; translated as "Ward Six".

"Chernyi monakh". 1894; translated as "The Black Monk".

"Student". 1894; translated as "The Student".

"Moia zhizn"'. 1896; translated as "My Life".

"Dom s mezonimom". 1896; translated as "The House with the Mezzanine".

"Muzhiki". 1897; translated as "Peasants".

"Kryzhovnik". 1898; translated as "Gooseberries".

"Ionych". 1898.

"Chelovek v futliare". 1898; translated as "Man in a Case"; also as "Man in a Suitcase"; and as "Man in a Box".

"Dama s sobachkoi". 1899; translated as "The Lady with a Lapdog"; also as "The Lady with a Dog"; "The Lady with a Little Dog"; "Lady with Lapdog" and as "The Lady with the Dog".

"Dushechka". 1899; translated as "The Darling".

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