From Chekhov's Notebook
Journal: New England review
Year: 2021

From Chekhov's Notebook Anton Chekhov Translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf ANTON CHEKHOV (1860–1904), an immensely influential Russian playwright and author of short fiction, had produced at least 250 pieces by the age of twenty-four. In the estimation of Vladimir Nabokov, "we might list the greatest artists in Russian prose thus: first, Tolstoy; second, Gogol; third, Chekhov; fourth, Turgenev. This is," he continues, "rather like grading student papers and no doubt Dostoevski and S