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Years before his marriage to Olga Knipper and his self-imposed medical exile to Yalta, years before he even began writing the seminal works of dramatic literature for which he is renowned, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, to support his financially and physically struggling family, wrote stories...many, many stories. Starting in his early 20s, living in Moscow, he made a name for himself by capturing the peculiarities of Russian life through satire, humor, pathos, and passion. Myriad influences inspired his eventual words for the stage.

I wrote this in 2022, when I was getting divorced. I filed it away. I didn’t want to be bitter. Three years later, I don’t see bitterness. You tell me. I thought marriage would be a passport to a bigger life.Instead, I got five years in solitary confinement. I was her everything— Her chauffeur. Her scapegoat. Her emotional punching bag.A professional doormat. Two hours of chit-chat before breakfast. Every day. Miss one morning, and I was the villain who didn’t care. Friends? Off-limits. Family? Excommunicated. The only “safe” place was inside her orbit— which felt less like ...

Love has many forms, many needs. Some fall into the dark, into the shadows. Forbidden love has connotations of desire, of possession but also of matters far more unsavoury. It’s a delicate facet of love that our classic authors explain with careful words and superbly crafted narratives.

As two friends are sharing stories together, the story of the man in the box comes up. The man in the box, Byelikov, was an eccentric professor who often made his coworkers feel uneasy. One day, Byelikov finds himself enamored with the sister of a new teacher at the school, Kovalenko. The prospect of a relationship between Byelikov and the sister, Varinka, excited his colleagues as they thought it might help to make him more normal and approachable. However, when someone takes it upon himself to draw a humorous caricature of the couple, things fall apart.

The ultimate collection of great short stories by the best Russian classic authors. 1. "Her Lover" by Maxim Gorky 2. "The Empty Drum" by Count Leo Tolstoy 3. "The Hoop" by Fedor Sologub 4. "The District Doctor" by Ivan Turgenev 5. "The White Dog" by Fedor Sologub 6. "The Cloak" by Nikolai Gogol 7. "A Soothing Dream" by Fedor Sologub 8. "The Christmas Tree and the Wedding" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9. "A Work of Art" by Anton Chekhov 10. "Children Wiser Than Their Fathers" by Count Leo Tolstoy

In “The Kiss”, a lonely, love-starved soldier keeps a secret rendezvous for another man and becomes enamored with a woman he is never to see again. “The Duel” describes the collisions between men and women in hopeless relationships, and how two men are driven to settle the score in a clandestine meeting on a bridge, pistols in hand. In all of these stories, Chekhov’s brilliant portrayal of people from all walks of life and how they deal with the moral dilemmas their circumstances press upon them comes to vivid life in the listener’s mind.

Healing is an uneven process. In this second book, Baek’s sessions intensify as her inner conflicts become more complex and challenging. Through her dialogues with her psychiatrist and reflective micro-essays following each session, Baek traces the patterns of her anguish, makes progress, weathers setbacks, and shares the revelatory insights that come just when she has almost given up hope. I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki offers itself to the social media generation as a book to cherish, a friend who knows that grappling with everyday despair is part of a lifelong journey.

Anton Chekhov was a Russian short story writer and a playwright. His playwriting career produced four classics, while his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics alike. As his writing evolved, Chekhov made formal innovations that have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. This collection of short stories consists of "The Duel," "Excellent People," "Mire," "Expensive Lessons," "The Princess," and "The Chemist's Wife."

The first tragedy of the gifted child is that no one sees them for who they are. Instead, they are seen as reflections—mirrors of their parents' unmet needs, unfulfilled dreams, and hidden insecurities. And so, in the quiet corridors of childhood, where love should be unconditional, a cruel exchange is made: be what they want, or risk losing love altogether. Alice Miller’s The Drama of the Gifted Child is not merely a book—it is a revelation, an emotional earthquake that shatters the illusion of the ‘happy childhood’ many of us have been conditioned to protect.

After six years in prison, Leo Duvnjac is going free. Prosecuted for numerous crimes - including 10 bank robberies, planting a bomb in Stockholm's Central Station, and pulling off northern Europe's largest-ever weapons theft - he was convicted of just two robberies. Unreformed, Leo has spent his imprisonment plotting one final heist, but he only has a brief window following his release to pull it off. The plan is to steal more than 100 million Swedish crowns from Sweden's largest police station and then disappear forever.

The Cherry Orchard (1903) is the final play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It is considered as one of four outstanding plays by Chekhov, along with The Seagull, Three Sisters, and Uncle Vanya. The narrative recounts an aristocratic landowner who returns to her family estate just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage. It dramatizes the socio-economic developments in Russia at the turn of the 20th century, including the rise of the middle class after the abolition of serfdom and the waning power of the aristocracy.

A curated playlist of Operational Technology and ICS Cyber Security related podcast episodes [any language] by ICS Security enthusiasts. Contact Anton Shipulin / @shipulin_anton on Twitter or LinkedIn if something is missing. Subscribe!

Sinéad Cusack, Anna Massey, Patricia Routledge, Andrew Sachs and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies star in this 1974 BBC Radio full-cast production of Chekhov’s classic play.Madame Ranyevskaya and her daughter Anya have returned home from Paris to discover that their family estate - which includes their beloved cherry orchard - has to be sold to cover the family’s debts.

As Maxim and Lizaveta, a young married couple, drive home from church on Easter, Maxim finds the joy and beauty in everything. As the newly married couple drives home on their first Easter together, carrying a blessed Easter cake, they see a Cossack at the side of the road. They soon learn that he is sick and too weak to make it home, and he asks for some food if they have any. Maxim immediately wants to share the Easter cake with him; however, his wife refuses to allow this, ripping the cake away from her husband.

"Смерть мужьям!" - первый роман сериала о Родионе Ванзарове, талантливом, необычном сыщике и любимце барышень, а также о его друге Аполлоне Лебедеве, великом криминалисте. Петербург, 1895 год. В столице Российской империи стоит страшная, изнуряющая жара.

Po syuzhetu povesti dyadya vezyot svoego maloletnego plemyannika v gimnaziyu. Ih soprovozhdaet dobryj, no praktichnyj nastoyatel' mestnoj cerkvi. Plemyannik Egorushka grusten ottogo, chto pokinul rodnoj dom. Po doroge on vstrechaet mnogo novyh lyudej, vklyuchaya krasivuyu grafinyu Dranickuyu, obozchikov, semejstvo unizhennyh evreev, bogatogo kupca Varlamova. Avtor uvlechyonno opisyvaet stepnye pejzazhi.

Listen up, friend… If you’ve ever felt that twinge in your gut that someone’s feeding you a line… If you’ve ever sat across the table from a smooth talker and thought, “Is this guy for real or is he just jerking my chain?”…You’re in the right place. Because today, I’m about to yank the curtain off a hidden world—an underbelly of sly phrases, sneaky pauses, and downright shady tactics that can worm their way into any conversation.And guess what? You’ll walk out the other side knowing exactly how to spot these verbal and nonverbal whoppers before they sink your trust ...

"Vishnjovyj sad" - komedija v chetyrjoh dejstvijah Antona Pavlovicha Chehova. P'esa napisana v 1903 godu, vpervye postavlena 17 janvarja 1904 goda v Moskovskom hudozhestvennom teatre. Unikal'naja radiopostanovka, zapisannaja v 1949 godu, s uchastiem aktrisy Ol'gi Knipper-Chehovoj, zheny pisatelja.

On a quiet, still night when the stars speckle the sky, two shepherds, one old and one young, watch over their flock of sheep. While the two shepherds are laying down keeping watch, a wealthy overseer pays them a visit. The overseer, who has come from Kovylyevsky fields, reminds the old shepherd of the evil and mysterious man who died there. While talking about the evil man, who seems magical, the overseer and young shepherd learn that there are treasures buried in the lands surrounding them.

Dramaturgo y autor de relatos ruso, es una de las figuras más destacadas de la literatura rusa. Chèjov nació el 29 de enero de 1860 en Taganrog, Rusia, y estudió medicina en la Universidad Estatal de Moscú. Casi no ejerció su profesión debido a su éxito como escritor y porque padecía tuberculosis.