Russian Silhouettes: More Stories of Russian Life

About this book

Here, English translations of Chekhov’s short stories attend to Russian social life, especially the frictions of family, work, and provincial custom. When a teenage tutor loses patience with his pupil over a Latin lesson, the paid arrangement makes their difference in authority plain. At a gathering in the Turkin home, guests laugh at a young footman’s theatrical performance, while Startsev carries the joke with him on his walk back to town.