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 ...

Pondering the meaning and purpose of life is not a trivial pursuit, and indeed, the search becomes most urgent when people are confronted with tragedy, loss and grief. But as some of the world's great ...

I keep a photograph of Anton Chekhov on my mantelpiece. It's such an informal shot that it looks surprisingly modern. Chekhov appears to be sitting at a cluttered desk or a table, resting his head on ...

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 ...

FIFTY-TWO STORIES. By Anton Chekhov. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Knopf. 508 pages. $35. In a lecture published posthumously in 1981, Vladimir Nabokov had this to say about ...

Yalta does not look like the kind of place Anton Chekhov would have chosen to spend his last years in. The seaside town surrounded by cliffs is today full of loud Russian holidaymakers. The neon signs ...

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) ...

The directors Michael DeFilippis, Dmitry Krymov and Aleksandr Molochnikov all infuse their current productions with a burning, modern rage. By Helen Shaw Peter Eotvos’s “Three Sisters,” based on the ...

This phrase makes a simple but important point — knowledge should not only be acquired but also put into practice. Experts ...

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 ...