The literary heritage of the Russian writer and playwright Antona Pavlovicha Chehova - he’s Anton, aka The Man Without a spleen, he’s my brother’s brother, alias Antosha Chehonte - is more than 30 volumes. A. P. Chehov in his entire creative life, never wrote a novel, it is - a recognized master of short prose , but each to his story - it is the whole of human life in its fullness tragicomic. Style A. P. Chehova - polished and filigree, the language simple and concise. L. N. Tolstoy, Chekhov’s stories praising, said that he had every detail either needed or beautiful.