About the book: 2024 / "Chekhov in Life" is a book created in the genre of documentary editing. The image of A.P. Chekhov is formed in it from numerous, sometimes contradictory, testimonies of his contemporaries - relatives, friends, acquaintances. Portrait, character, family, study, faith, creativity, medicine, etc. - in fifty thematically organized chapters, Chekhov appears in a variety of guises: as a worthy son who touchingly cared for his parents; as a favorite of friends and women; as a traveler and gardener; as an interesting interlocutor and original thinker. The cross-cutting plot of the story is not the solution to imaginary Chekhov's riddles, but the drama of fate. The author and compiler of the book is Igor Nikolaevich Sukhikh, a famous literary critic, Doctor of Philology, professor at St. Petersburg University and one of the best researchers of Chekhov's work.