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Plot. The plot concerns the visit of a lieutenant, Sokolsky, to the house of Susanna Rothstein, the Jewish owner of a vodka distillery, to collect a debt owed to Sokolsky's married cousin Kryukov, but in fact which Sokolsky hopes that Kryukov will lend on to himself so he can marry his fiancée.
Nikitin, a 27-year-old teacher of Russian literature in a provincial gymnasium, is infatuated with Masha Shelestova, an 18-year daughter of a local landlord. A happy man, he admires everything about the Shelestov house and is even prepared to endure the huge number of cats and dogs. He marries Masha and the idyll continues, now partly in their ...
The Chekhov Gymnasium in Taganrog on Ulitsa Oktyabrskaya 9 (formerly Gymnasicheskaya Street) is the oldest gymnasium in the South of Russia. Playwright and short-story writer Anton Chekhov spent 11 years in the school, which was later named after him and transformed into a literary museum.
29 gen 2024 · The school, or Gymnasium, Chekhov attended as a child still exists, and is now named the Chekhov Gymnasium. He was not a remarkable student, and had to repeat a year after failing an exam. When he was 16, his parents and two older brothers had to escape to Moscow to avoid debtor’s prison (he’d been trying to build a new house, but was cheated out of all his money by a contractor).
25 giu 2022 · Chekhov attended the Greek school in Taganrog and the Taganrog gymnasium was later renamed the Chekhov gymnasium where he was held back for a year when he was fifteen years old for failing an examination in ancient Greek. He sang at the Greek Orthodox monastery in Taganrog and also in his father’s choirs.
In his Notebook I (page 47) Chekhov summarised the plot for "Anna on the Neck", then yet to be written: "A poor girl, gymnasium student, with five brothers, marries a rich state official who counts every single piece of bread, demands from her subserviance and gratitude, is scornful of her relatives...
