Chekhov in life. Sukhikh I.N.

“Chekhov in life” is a book created in the documentary installation genre. Image A.P. Chekhov consists of numerous, sometimes contrary to each other's evidence of his contemporaries - relatives, friends, acquaintances. Portrait, character, family, studies, faith, creativity, medicine, etc. - in the fifty of thematically organized chapters of Chekhov appears in a variety of hypostases: as a worthy son who carefully cares about parents; as a favorite of friends and women; like a traveler and gardener; As an interesting interlocutor and original thinker. The through the story of the narrative is not the unraveling of imaginary Chekhov puzzles, but the drama of fate.

Book-compiler-Igor Nikolaevich Sukhikh, a well-known literary critic, Doctor of Philology, Professor of St. Petersburg University and one of the best researchers of Chekhov’s work.