A Chekhov Circus
A guide to the short stories of Anton Chekhov
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 lost dog is taken in by a circus animal trainer.
A hunter bumps into his wife, whom he has abandoned, and treats her cruelly.
A traveler is forced off the road in a snowstorm and finds himself in the company of a highly untrustworthy group.
A sly writer woos an apparently rich widow, but she has grander ambitions.
Angered by his wife’s infidelity, a man shops for a gun to take his revenge.
A man investigates some suspicious sounds in the house in the middle of the night.
Two poor, homeless children survive a frightening storm with the help of a kindly old peasant.
A Chekhov Circus 