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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.

Yegor the huntsman, walking down a country road, accidentally meets his estranged wife Pelageya to whom he's been married for 12 years, but who he seldom visited. She weeps and implores him to visit her more often. He tries to explain why he could not abide living in a village.

In this story, two peasants keeping a three-day vigil over a dead body wrapped in sheets, are interrupted by a man wearing a cassock. The younger peasant agrees to guide the third man to his destination, while the older one stays behind.

The story of an isolated man and wife visited by the postman and his coachman. This visit triggers all sorts of interpersonal dynamics, as the husband accuses his wife of being a witch who ensorcels young men, while the wife feels that her life has been wasted with her useless husband.

"A Daughter of Albion" is a short story first published in 1883 in a satirical magazine. Anton Chekhov’s stories are often ambiguous and bizarre. Fyodor Andreitch Otsov, the district marshal of nobility, went to the landowner called Gryabov, who was catching fish with the English governess.

In this masterful story of numb desperation and farcical humor of everyday life by Russian playwright and writer Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Nilov, a poor shoemaker who longs to become rich, is granted his wish. But he soon discovers something he wasn't prepared for.

On a hot summer day two carpenters, Gerasim and Lyubim, sit in a pond, floundering about in the water under a willow tree, beside the unfinished bathing shed they were supposed to be working on. Blue from cold and wrangling, they struggle to drag a large eelpout by the gills, from under the root....

A boy of two years and eight months makes his first foray into the outside world in a company of his somewhat wayward nanny and is quite overwhelmed, having got even his first taste of alcohol. In the evening he cannot get to sleep. The soldiers with the brooms, the big cats, the horses, the bit of glass, the tray of oranges, the bright buttons, all gathered together, weigh on his brain. He tosses from side to side, babbles, and, at last, unable to endure his excitement, begins crying.

The cabman Iona's son recently died. He desperately and unsuccessfully tries to have a talk with the people he meets and tell them of how shattered he is. He ends up talking to his horse. Read in English, unabridged.

Honored sir, father and benefactor, a petty clerk called Nevyrazimov sitting in his office on the Easter Eve in the company of a cockroach scurrying the table, muses upon what he might do to make it in the world. Read in English, unabridged.

Ivan Chervyakov, a petty government official, while in the theatre, sneezes right upon the head of a man sitting in front of him, who happens to be a high-ranking government official. He spends the evening and the next day fawning before his sneeze victim trying to extract forgiveness, but what he succeeds instead is only bringing out a fit of rage in him. Shocked, Chervyakov returns home to lie there and die, due to the sheer stress of having endured such horror. Read in English, unabridged.

Would you go into voluntary solitary confinement for 15 years in order to get rich? And more importantly, what would happen to you in the end? Our protagonist, the banker, agrees to pay millions to a young lawyer who believes he can stay locked up for 15 years in exchange for a multimillion reward. The bet does go ahead, but what it leads to both surprises and frightens the banker. Read in English, unabridged.

We continue to explore the world of our feral friends and learn about some of their darker secrets, some of the naughty episodes of their hidden lives, and some of the most revealing confessions of what cats think about their human masters. It may come as a surprise, but cats often do watch humans and attempt to imitate their behaviour, albeit not always very successfully. And in the second half of this collection we meet humans who don't seem to know how to handle their pets without embarrassment and even those humans who try to be a bit too close to nature for their own good.

"Anna na shee" - radiopostanovka po odnoimennomu rasskazu. Ispolnyat Mariya Babanova.

Sbornik radiopostanovok po rasskazam Antona Chekhova. V sbornik vhodyat rasskazy: Na dache (ispolnyayut: Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Georgiy Menglet, Vladimir Basov i Yuriy Yakovlev), Brozhenie umov (ispolnyaet Vyacheslav Nevinnyy), Passazhir 1-go klassa (ispolnyaet Sergey Yurskiy), Pervyy debyut (ispolnyaet Oleg Tabakov), Samoobol'shchenie (ispolnyaet Vyacheslav Nevinnyy), Vosklitsatel'nyy znak (ispolnyaet Vladimir Etush), Neudacha (ispolnyaet Vladimir Basov), Vyigryshnyy bilet (ispolnyaet Vyacheslav Nevinnyy).

"Dushechka" - radiopostanovka po odnoimennomu rasskazu. Ispolnyat Igor' Il'inskiy.

Sbornik radiopostanovok po rasskazam Antona Chekhova. V sbornik vhodyat rasskazy: Kot (ispolnyayut: Evgeniy Vesnik, Tat'yana Doronina i Vladimir Basov), Krivoe zerkalo (ispolnyayut Natal'ya Tenyakova i Aleksandr Parra), Dachniki (ispolnyaet Leonid Bronevoy), V potemkah (ispolnyaet Andrey Mironov), Znakomyy muzhchina (ispolnyaet Rostislav Plyatt i Lazar' Petreykov), Mstitel' (ispolnyaet Valentin Gaft), Neobhodimoe predislovie (ispolnyaet Oleg Yankovskiy), Nepriyatnaya istoriya (ispolnyaet Oleg Tabakov), Odin iz mnogih (ft. Rostislav Plyatt).

Sbornik radiopostanovok po rasskazam Antona Chekhova. V sbornik vhodyat rasskazy: O drame (ispolnyaet Vyacheslav Nevinnyy), Tragik (ispolnyaet Nevinnyy), Komik (ispolnyaet Vyacheslav Nevinnyy), Kontrabas i fleyta (ispolnyaet Vsevolod Larionov), Mest' (ispolnyaet Aleksey Gribov), Nervy (ispolnyaet Nikolay Gritsenko), Razgovor cheloveka s sobakoy (ispolnyaet Vsevolod Larionov), Brak po raschetu (ispolnyaet Sergey Yurskiy), Moya ona (ispolnyaet Oleg YAnkovskiy).

"Chelovek v futlyare" - radiopostanovka po odnoimennomu rasskazu Antona Pavlovicha Chekhova. Ispolnyaet Dmitriy Zhuravlev.

"Chernyy monah" - radiopostanovka po odnoimennomu rasskazu Antona Pavlovicha Chekhova. Ispolnyaet Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy.