“Pushkin Features” in the Late Chekhov

The article is devoted to the significance of Pushkin for the late Chekhov. In contrast to the early and mature Chekhov, it is manifested not simply in the use of Pushkin’s images to enrich the writer’s artistic vocabulary. In his later years, Chekhov also correlated his own fate with Pushkin’s and turned to Pushkin to reinterpret classical themes of literature, in particular, the theme of real and imaginary love, outlined by Leo Tolstoy in Anna Karenina.