About the book: 2004 / The book by the famous researcher of creativity A.P. Chekhov contains works devoted to the writer’s connections with his predecessors, contemporaries, successors, as in Russian , and in some foreign literatures. It presents pages of the history of literature, read “against the backdrop of Chekhov,” and Chekhov, seen through the prism of his literary connections. The writer appears in this book as one of the centers of gravity and influence in Russian and world culture. The book is addressed to students, graduate students, and researchers Chekhov's work, to its interpreters on stage and on screen, to all readers of Chekhov.