Selected short stories -1888-1892- translated by Constance Garnett

wives and widows of men who held ranks 3 through 5 in the Russian Civil Service

If you ever need my life, come and take it: Chekhov later used this sentence in his 1896 play The Seagull

Pissarev or Darwin: D. I. Pisarev (1841-1868) was a Russian political theorist and literary critic; Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was the English naturalist who first formulated a theory of evolution

Dobrolubov: N. A. Dobrolyubov (1836-1861) was a Russian radical literary and social critic

Dostoevsky: such as the marriage of the satanic Stavrogin to the idiot girl Mary Lebyadkin in The Possessed, or the engagement of Dmitri to Katerina in The Brothers Karamazov

Quixote: Don Quixote was the hero of the novel Don Quixote by Cervantes (1547- 1616); the novel explores the contrast between lofty idealism and reality

Gogol's divinity student, Homa Brut: Khoma Brut is a character in the story 'Vy' in the collection Mirgorod by N. V. Golgol

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