About the book: 1980 / The story of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was written in 1888 based on the author’s impressions of a trip to the Azov Sea in the spring of 1887. It was first published in the magazine “Northern Bulletin”, 1888, No. 3. Nine-year-old Yegorushka’s mother sends him to study in the city, to a gymnasium. The boy has an amazing journey with a convoy across the Russian steppe. Discovery of a huge unknown world, travel sketches and portraits of companions, joys, sorrows and new meetings. A fascinating story.