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ANTON TCHEKHOF
WHEN
Anton Tchekhof first came to
the fore, no less an authority than
Tolstoy said: "Russia has given
birth to another Turgenev." The
estimate was not overdrawn. Tchekhof was in
deed a modern Turgenev. Perhaps not as uni
versal, because Turgenev, having lived in western
Europe, in close contact with conditions outside of
Russia, dealt with more variegated aspects of life.
But as a creative artist Tchekhof is fitted to take
his place with Turgenev.
Tchekhof is preeminently the master of short
stories. Within the limits of a few pages he paints
the drama of human life with its manifold tragic
and comic colors, in its most intimate reflex upon
the characters who pass through the panorama.
He has been called a pessimist. As if one could
miss the sun without feeling the torture of utter
darkness !
Tchekhof wrote during the gloomiest period of
Russian life, at a time when the reaction had
drowned the revolution in the blood of the young
generation, when the Tsar had choked the very
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