A Chekhov Circus
A guide to the short stories of Anton Chekhov
A church sexton stumbles across a menacing stranger in the graveyard.
A rich man is touched when his staff at work present him with an album, but he is unconcerned the next day when his children rip it to pieces.
Normally a sober man, Strizhin has a bit too much to drink at a party and then imbibes from the wrong bottle when he gets home.
The guests at a memorial service must sneak out for quick sips of vodka because the widow has banned drinking in her house.
A surveyor bound for a remote village becomes convinced that his cab driver is up to no good.
A mother of marriage-age daughters has nothing but disdain for a rough-mannered soldier until she learns that he is single and a gentleman.
A man investigates some suspicious sounds in the house in the middle of the night.
A man accused of murder unknowingly fingers the man who may be the true culprit
A conductor is pilloried simply for doing his job.
A drunken bully bullies everyone around him, drunkenly.
A Chekhov Circus 