Russia is an old sick lady. Doctor"s notes

“I have no doubt that classes of medical sciences had a serious influence on my literary activity,” A.P. Chekhov. Indeed, many of his works can be considered a kind of diagnosis of modern Russia. He wrote about the "boring, dull and vulgar" existence of Russian inhabitants, affecting the reasons why Russia as a whole was like an old sick lady. “In an Asian country where there is no freedom of print and freedom of conscience, where it lives so closely and so badly and little hope for the best times,” cannot be different, said Chekhov. Everything is infected here to one degree or another by bacilli of lies, cunning, envy, and therefore the picture of Russian life becomes "more terrible visions of Hamlet". The book includes essays, notes and letters of A.P. Chekhov, affecting this topic