“Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.”                     — Eudora Welty, 1977

One of Russia’s greatest writers, Anton Chekhov began his career writing jokes and anecdotes for popular magazines to support himself while he studied to become a doctor. Between 1888 and his death he single-handedly revolutionized both the drama and the short story. Near the end of his life he married an actress, Olga Knipper. He died from tuberculosis in 1904, age 44.

201 Stories by Anton Chekov is a website based on the work of Constance Garnett who translated and published 13 volumes of Chekhov stories in the years 1916-1922. Unfortunately, the order of the stories is almost random, and in the last volume Mrs. Garnett stated: “I regret that it is impossible to obtain the necessary information for a chronological list of all Tchehov’s works.” However, this site, built by James Rusk, presents all 201 stories in the order of their publication in Russia

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