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"Kashtanka," a shaggy-dog story penned by Anton Chekhov in seven parts and first published in 1887, relates the experiences of its eponymous heroine, a fox-faced, reddish dachshund-mix, whose name means 'little chestnut.' After her detestation of music causes her to become separated from the carpenter with whose family she had been living, Kashtanka finds herself taken up by an unusual vaudevillian and goes to live among an assortment of other intelligent animals, each of whom is observed with the characteristic empathy and humor that stamp Chekhov's work.View our full collection of podcasts ...

Lieutenant-General von Rabbek is a local aristocrat, who invites the officers of the Reserve Artillery Brigade to a cup of tea with brandy. Of all the guests, Ryabovitch is the most unpleasant one. While doing his best to avoid talking to people, Ryabovitch enters a dark room, where he an unknown woman surprises him by kissing him, then running away. The unexpected kiss awakes Ryabovitch's curiosity and passion, and the man spends the rest of the evening searching for the mysterious woman.

While hosting a party, a banker makes a bet with one of his guests, who is a lawyer. The topic of the bet is capital punishment and whether it is worse or better than a life sentence. The banker sees the capital punishment as more humane than life imprisonment, whilst the young lawyer completely disagrees. The bet is as follows: if the lawyer spends fifteen years in complete isolation, the banker will give him two million rubles. As the years pass, the banker realizes that he will go bankrupt if he loses the bet.

Dmitri Gurov is a nearly forty-year-old man, who is married and has three children. He is unhappy with his marriage and regrets this big mistake every single day. While on a vacation, Dmitri meets Anna Sergeyevna - a young lady, who just like him is unhappily married. Very soon a love affair enfolds between the two and they start secretly meeting at different places. Unfortunately, Anna must go back to Moscow because her husband is having some health issues.

A collection of classic, exciting short stories and poems, narrated by Adam Lubitz. There are nine tracks total and over two hours of content.

The well-laid plans of two newlyweds go astray when an uncle and family arrive on the train on which the newlyweds are headed home for an intimate dinner.

Anton Tsjechov of Tsjechov was een Russische schrijver. Tijdens het oefenen als arts, publiceerde hij meer dan 600 literaire werken; sommige stukken vaak opgevoerd op dit moment - "De Meeuw', "The Cherry Orchard", "Oom Wanja" - maken hem tot een van de bekendste schrijvers van de Russische literatuur, met name voor zijn manier van beschrijven van het leven in de Russische provincie de late negentiende eeuw.

Yakov Ivanov is an elderly coffin-maker in a small village with a population that doesn’t generate enough deaths for him to make any real money. He is also a fiddler who sometimes sits in with a Jewish klezmer orchestra in spite of his dislike of Jews and of the flutist, Rothchild, in particular. Marfa, his long-suffering and unloved wife, becomes mortally ill with a contagious illness. He struggles to recall their shared past as he builds her coffin and soon he, too, succumbs to mortal illness, provoking a self-searching meditation and a change of heart.

The Duel is a novella by Anton Chekhov and was published in 1891. It tells the story of the debates between a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician about wits and ethics. This verbal battle leads to a violent contest: the duel. The story begins with Ivan Andreitch Laevsky - a government worker - who has run off with a married woman, Nadyezyhda Fyodorovna to a small town in the Caucasus. While there, he forms several acquaintanceships with a colorful array of characters.

An award-winning audiobook narrator and producer reads Anton Chekhov's "The Beggar", a moral tale in which the arrogant and self-righteous lawyer thinks he has "saved" the beggar by teaching him how to work for a living. In fact, he would have never continued the original task (or even begun it) if it weren't for the example of the lawyer's compassionate cook, who quietly chopped the wood for him without expecting anything in return. It was Olga's example of self-sacrifice, not Skvortsoff's example of "do-goodism" that inspired the man to change his life.

This work by Chekhov is about Musatov, who finds himself fortunate to have such dedicated children. Musatov is a drunkard and is constantly seeking out money from his sons, which they routinely give to him. His children indulge their father continually, even though he doesn't deserve it for all the trouble he brings them and the fact that he has nothing to give in return.

世界に名高いロシアの作家チェーホフ(1860~1904)。その初期ユーモア短編集から、『お化け鏡』、『床屋では』、『謎の女(ひと)』の3作品を収めました。本格的に作家の道を歩み出す前、冗談半分で雑誌に投稿し始めた頃の作品ですが、すでに天賦の才が見え隠れしています。 『お化け鏡』。蝋燭を手にした若夫婦が、暗闇の地下室へ入ります。そこにあるのは、先祖伝来の鏡。悪魔が宿ると言い伝えられてきました。若い妻は、鏡を覗いた瞬間、あっと声を上げて気絶してしまいます。一体、何事が……。 『床屋では』。気まじめな若者が営む粗末な床屋へ馴染みの客がやってきます。待ちに待った客のようです。病み上がりの客は、医者の指示通り、丸坊主にしてくれと頼みます。後で濃い毛髪が生えてくるからだそうです。さて、どうなりますことやら…… 『謎の女(ひと)』。一等車の個室。駆け出しの作家と着飾った美女が向かい合っています。女は、切々と不幸な身の上話を始めます。若い作家は、この女性に身も心も捧げたい気持ちになります。薄幸な、謎の女性は、ふと、ため息をつくと……。 訳・朗読 清水柳一/音響効果 岩田直行 朗読者:清水 柳一(Shimizu Ryuichi) ...

世界に名高いロシアの作家チェーホフ(1860~1904)。その初期ユーモア短編集から、『お化け鏡』、『床屋では』、『謎の女(ひと)』の3作品を収めました。ロシア語による朗読です。 訳・朗読 清水柳一/ロシア語発音指導 東シャトウーヒナ/音響効果 岩田直行

世界に名高いロシアの作家チェーホフ(1860~1904)。その初期ユーモア短編集から、『お化け鏡』、『床屋では』、『謎の女(ひと)』の3作品を収めました。本格的に作家の道を歩み出す前、冗談半分で雑誌に投稿し始めた頃の作品ですが、すでに天賦の才が見え隠れしています。 『お化け鏡』。蝋燭を手にした若夫婦が、暗闇の地下室へ入ります。そこにあるのは、先祖伝来の鏡。悪魔が宿ると言い伝えられてきました。若い妻は、鏡を覗いた瞬間、あっと声を上げて気絶してしまいます。一体、何事が……。 『床屋では』。気まじめな若者が営む粗末な床屋へ馴染みの客がやってきます。待ちに待った客のようです。病み上がりの客は、医者の指示通り、丸坊主にしてくれと頼みます。後で濃い毛髪が生えてくるからだそうです。さて、どうなりますことやら…… 『謎の女(ひと)』。一等車の個室。駆け出しの作家と着飾った美女が向かい合っています。女は、切々と不幸な身の上話を始めます。若い作家は、この女性に身も心も捧げたい気持ちになります。薄幸な、謎の女性は、ふと、ため息をつくと……。 訳・朗読 清水柳一/ロシア語発音指導 東シャトウーヒナ/音響効果 岩田直行/朗読者:清水 柳一(Shimizu Ryuichi) ...

A lawyer encounters a beggar and offers him a menial job, after which he regularly comes to do odd jobs. Eventually, the lawyer gets him a clerical position. Years later, the beggar has risen in life, but it turns out that it was the lawyer’s servant Olga who caused the change of heart which set the beggar’s life in a new direction.

"Zinotchka" is a story told through the eyes of a young boy. He saw his governess, Zinotchka, kissing and cuddling with his older brother, Sasha. Eventually, Zinotchka became his sister-in-law.

Years before his marriage to Olga Knipper and his self-imposed medical exile to Yalta, years before he even began writing the seminal works of dramatic literature for which he is renowned, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, to support his financially and physically struggling family, wrote stories...many, many stories. Starting in his early 20s, living in Moscow, he made a name for himself by capturing the peculiarities of Russian life through satire, humor, pathos, and passion. Myriad influences inspired his eventual words for the stage.

Yegor the huntsman, walking down a country road, accidentally meets his estranged wife Pelageya to whom he's been married for 12 years, but who he seldom visited. She weeps and implores him to visit her more often. He tries to explain why he could not abide living in a village.

In this story, two peasants keeping a three-day vigil over a dead body wrapped in sheets, are interrupted by a man wearing a cassock. The younger peasant agrees to guide the third man to his destination, while the older one stays behind.

The story of an isolated man and wife visited by the postman and his coachman. This visit triggers all sorts of interpersonal dynamics, as the husband accuses his wife of being a witch who ensorcels young men, while the wife feels that her life has been wasted with her useless husband.