From Chekhov with LOVE

Leo Basil
9 min readJun 30, 2021

“When I have children, I will tell them not without pride: ‘You sons of bitches, at one time I had intercourse with a black-eyed Hindu … where? In a coconut plantation on a moonlit night.

You all know (Rus) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. A beard, pince-nez, a short and sarcastic cut of human nature in feuilletons and plays. Our Everything is for theaters. Some may remember that Chekhov was actually a doctor. “Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.” Certainly, one should not discount the fact that a person with a sign on the door “A.P. Chekhov is a doctor “was an ardent…

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