Day: July 12, 2012

BY ANTON P. CHEKHOV Nine-year-old Vanka Zhukov, who had been apprentice to the shoemaker Aliakhin for three months, did not go to bed the night

BY ANTON P. CHEKHOV I It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was pacing from corner to corner of his study, recalling to

BY ANTON P. CHEKOV Olenka, the daughter of the retired collegiate assessor Plemyanikov, was sitting on the back-door steps of her house doing nothing. It

BY VSEVOLOD M. GARSHIN. Semyon Ivanonv was a track-walker. His hut was ten versts away from a railroad station in one direction and twelve versts

BY VLADIMIR G. KORLENKO I A month and two days had elapsed since the judges, amid the loud acclaim of the Athenian people, had pronounced

BY M.Y. SALTYKOV [N.Shchedrin] Once upon a time there were two Officials. They were both empty-headed, and so they found themselves one day suddenly transported

BY LEO N. TOLSTOY In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of

BY FIODOR M. DOSTOYEVSKY The other day I saw a wedding… But no! I would rather tell you about a Christmas tree. The wedding was

BY IVAN S. TURGENEV One day in autumn on my way back from a remote part of the country I caught cold and fell ill.