CHEKHOV. THE WORLD OF CHEKHOV'S STORIES.

Abstract

Chekhov took to the road of creativity in the 80s of the 19th century; his predecessors
and older contemporaries were Turgenev, Goncharov, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. With
their names is associated with the rapid growth of Russian prose, the flowering of the
Russian novel. The heights reached by the novelists served then as a measure of the
achievements of all literature.