Humorous stories

All lovers of the theater Anton Pavlovich Chekhov are known as a talented playwright, the author of deep, wise plays that invariably collect full halls in many countries of the world. However, there is another Chekhov - a brilliant feuilletonist, a master of short stories. It was with such witty, full of humor of miniatures that the writer"s activity of Antoshi Czechont began. So the grandson of the serf peasant and the future classic of world literature signed his first texts. He began to write them back in the Taganrog gymnasium, which he graduated in 1879. In the same year, Chekhov left his native Taganrog and became a student of the medical faculty at Moscow University.
At the end of the same 1879, the writer"s debut of Chekhov took place. His story "A letter to a scientific neighbor" was published in a weekly humorous magazine "Dragonfly". In subsequent years, the number of such small masterpieces increased to several hundred. According to the writer himself in those days, he sometimes wrote on a story on a day. And although the whole era has gone the past, in which the heroes of the young Chekhov live and act, it is unlikely that these days there will be a man whom these funny miniatures will leave indifferent. This publication includes more than 340 such humorous works of A.P. Chekhov. They were published in domestic magazines from 1880 to 1892.
Olga Venediktovna, Grandelvskaya, was born in St. Petersburg, graduated from the faculty of book graphics of the Institute named after I.E. Repina, member of the Union of Artists of Russia. I issued more than a hundred books. The work is periodically exhibited at collective and personal exhibitions. In particular, in 2008, a personal exhibition dedicated to Maurice Bezhar was held in the Mikhailovsky Theater. In 2014, in Copenhagen, in Moscow, Pyatigorsk, in St. Petersburg and others, personal exhibitions dedicated to the 200th anniversary of M. Yu. Lermontov. In 2001, O. Grabblevskaya became a laureate of the international competition of cartoonists, held in Turkey. Olga Venediktovna, a full -time artist of the magazine "Koster", collaborates with many St. Petersburg publishers. In 2013, he became the winner of the All -Russian competition of illustrators "Lermontov 2014". In 2014, the Pyatigorsk publishing house "Snow" issued a gift two-volume M. Yu. Lermontov with the 150th illustrations made by O. Grabblevskaya