My life

The story of A.P. Chekhov "My Life" saw the light in 1896. Anton Pavlovich talks about the nobleman, who was carried away by the philosophy of L. N. Tolstoy - by Tolstoy. Because of this, the hero Mikhail Poloznev throws the house and becomes a malarus, lives a simple life and works a lot. The artist Ilya Repin very highly appreciated this work: "What simplicity, strength, surprise, this gray ordinary tone, this prosaic worldview is in such a new exciting light. And what a language! - Bible. " Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy himself restrainedly accepted the story, although he praised the study of some characters. The collection includes other cult stories and stories: "Man in a case", "ionych", "The story of an unknown person" and others