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Sleepy (short Story)
"Sleepy" (russian: Спать хочется, translit=Spat khochetsya) is 1888 a short story by Anton Chekhov. Publication Chekhov wrote the story in the course of one day, while working upon '' The Steppe'', so as to 'get some money to deal with the beginning-of-the-month payments', as he explained to Alexey Pleshcheyev in a 23 January letter. It was first published in ''Peterburgskaya Gazeta'' No. 24, 25 January 1888 issue, signed A. Chekhonte (А. Чехонте). In a shortened version and with re-written finale it then appeared in a collection called ''Gloomy People'' (Хмурые люди, Khmurye lyudi, 1890). Chekhov included it into Volume 5 of his Collected Works, published by Adolf Marks in 1899–1901.Muratova, K. D. Commentaries to Спать хочется. The Works by A.P. Chekhov in 12 volumes. Khudozhestvennaya Literatura. Moscow, 1960. Vol. 6, pp. 492 Plot Varka, a 13-year-old babysitter, sits all night long by the cradle trying desperately not to fall asleep ...
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Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; 29 January 1860 Old Style date 17 January. – 15 July 1904 Old Style date 2 July.) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics."Stories ... which are among the supreme achievements in prose narrative.Vodka miniatures, belching and angry cats George Steiner's review of ''The Undiscovered Chekhov'', in ''The Observer'', 13 May 2001. Retrieved 16 February 2007. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." Chekhov renounced the theatre after the reception of ''The Seagull'' in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 189 ...
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Peterburgskaya Gazeta
''Peterburgskaya Gazeta'' ( rus, Петербургская Газета, , pʲɪtʲɪrˈburkskəjə ɡɐˈzʲetə; "St. Petersburg Gazette") was a Russian political and literary newspaper, launched in 1867 by the publisher Ilya Arsenyev (1820–1888). Originally a small-scale publication (coming out three times a week), it was bought in 1871 by Sergey Khudekov, started to gain momentum and in 1882 become a popular daily. Among the authors who contributed to it on the regular basis, were Nikolai Leskov, Alexander Kugel, Sergey Terpigorev, Vasily Avseenko, Ieronim Yasinsky, Nikolai Leykin, Dmitry Minayev, Gavriil Zhulev. In all, 33 short stories by Anton Chekhov were published by the ''St. Petersburg Gazette'' in 1885–1887, including "The Huntsman", "A Malefactor" and "Sergeant Prishibeyev". In March 1917 ''Peterburgskaya Gazeta'' started to strongly support the Russian Provisional Government, calling for the anti-Bolshevik dictatorship. On 22 November of that year it was closed ...
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Adolf Marks
Adolf Fyodorovich Marx (russian: Адо́льф Фёдорович Маркс; 2 February 1838 – ), last name also spelled Marcks and recently Marks, known as A. F. Marx, was an influential 19th-century German publisher in Russia best known for the weekly journal '' Niva''. He obtained Russian citizenship. Marx was born in Stettin, the son of Friedrich Marx, a maker of tower A tower is a tall Nonbuilding structure, structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from guyed mast, masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting ... clocks. After finishing his education, he went to work in a bookstore, and in 1859 moved to Russia to take jobs in the book trade, first with F. A. Bietepage and I. K. Kalugin to deal with their German books, and then in the foreign department of Moritz Wolf's bookstore, "one of the best bookshops in St. Petersburg." After a brief period as chief edito ...
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The Steppe (novella)
''The Steppe: The Story of a Journey'' (russian: Степь. История одной поездки, translit=Step'. Istoriya odnoy poyezdki) is a novella by Russian writer Anton Chekhov. In a narrative that drifts with the thought processes of the characters, Chekhov evokes a chaise journey across the steppe through the eyes of a young boy sent to live away from home, along with several companions, including his parish priest and his uncle, a merchant. Publication The novella was first published in March 1888 by ''Severny Vestnik''. With minor changes it was included in the ''Stories'' (Рассказы, 1888) to be reproduced unchanged in all its 13 editions (1889–1899). In a revised version it was included by Chekhov into Volume 4 of his Collected Works published in 1899–1901 by Adolf Marks.Muratova, K. D. Commentaries to Степь. The Works by A.P. Chekhov in 12 volumes. Khudozhestvennaya Literatura. Moscow, 1960. Vol. 6, pp. 524-525 Background In 1887, exhausted from ...
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Alexey Pleshcheyev
Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Никола́евич Плеще́ев; 8 October 1893) was a radical Russian poetry, Russian poet of the 19th century, once a member of the Petrashevsky Circle. Pleshcheyev's first book of poetry, published in 1846, made him famous: "Step forward! Without fear or doubt..." became widely known as "a Russian ''La Marseillaise''" (and was sung as such, using French melody), "Friends' calling..." and "We're brothers by the way we feel..." were also adopted by the mid-1840s' Russian radical youth as revolutionary hymns. In 1849, as a member of Petrashevsky Circle, Pleshcheyev was arrested, sent (alongside Fyodor Dostoyevsky among others) to Saint Petersburg and spent 8 months in Peter and Paul Fortress. Having initially been given a death sentence, Pleshcheyev was then deported to Uralsk, near Orenburg where he spent ten years in exile, serving first as a soldier, later as a junior officer. In his latter life, Pl ...
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Khudozhestvennaya Literatura
Khudozhestvennaya Literatura (russian: Художественная литература) is a publishing house in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The name means "fiction literature" in Russian. It specializes in the publishing of Russian and foreign works of literary fiction in Russia. History It was founded as the State Publishing House of Fiction in Moscow, the Soviet Union on October 1, 1930 on the basis of the literary and artistic sector of the State Publishing House and the publishing house "Land and Factory ". In 1934 it was renamed Goslitizdat. In 1937, the disbanded publishing house ''Academia'' was merged into it. Since 1963, it has been called the Publishing House "Khudozhestvennaya Literatura" (IHL). The publishing house produces classic works of world fiction, as well as the most significant works of contemporary foreign authors. Contemporary Russian authors were included in the plan only if they were part of the group of the most famous writers, generally recognized "c ...
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Sleepy
Sleepy means feeling a need for sleep, also known as somnolence. It may also refer to: People * Sleepy (rapper) (born 1984), a South Korean rapper part of the hip hop duo Untouchable * Sleepy Bill Burns (1880–1953), American baseball player * Sleepy Brown (born 1970), African American musician * Sleepy John Estes (1899–1977), African American musician * Sleepy Floyd (born 1960), retired American professional basketball player * Sleepy LaBeef (1935–2019), American rockabilly musician * Sleepy Tripp (born 1953), American racecar driver * Nikola "Sleepy" Andrews (born 1998), American Twitch streamer and former professional Overwatch player Arts and entertainment * Sleepy (character), one of the dwarfs in the film ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' * ''Sleepy'' (novel), by Kate Orman based on the TV series ''Doctor Who'' * "Sleepy" (short story), an 1888 story by Anton Chekhov See also * Sleep disorder, a medical disorder of the sleep patterns * Rheum, the thin mucus disc ...
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Short Stories By Anton Chekhov
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