Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portrait of the Russian writer Anton Chekov circa 1890-1904. (Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) The hectic ...

Anton Chekhov was probably the least statuesque major Russian writer of his generation. He wrote short stories rather than novels, lived modestly, and rarely boomed out complicated philosophical ideas ...

Chekhov’s gun is a dramatic principle that maintains that every element of a play should fulfill its promise to the audience—for example, a loaded gun that appears in the first act must go off by the ...

Maxim Gorky’s bittersweet slice of Tsarist Russian life, doesn’t come round often. With more than 20 characters and a ...

A new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard will begin previews at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in Manhattan on June 7. The new play, The Orchard, will be performed live through July 3 and ...

Ever found Russian literature a little hard going? Well, luckily a work by Russia's greatest playwright has been propelled into the present by giving it a digital makeover. StoryMax What if each ...

Russian writers know the beauty and pain of true love. Remembered as one of the most skillful writers in Russian literature (and one of the most treasured among short story authors of any nationality) ...

Even the greatest of writers can boast a distinguished posthumous detractor: Shakespeare had Tolstoy and Shaw, and Jane Austen had Charlotte Brontë. The statements these detractors made are so ...

The hectic rhythms of this age are not those of an Anton Chekhov play. Yet the Russian writer is very much in evidence right now. More consumed with questions than with answers, Chekhov’s plays depict ...