At Christmas Time Explained

At Christmas Time
Title Orig:На святках
Author:Anton Chekhov
Country:Russia
Language:Russian
Published In:Peterburgskaya Gazeta (1900)
Publisher:Adolf Marks (1903, 1906)
Pub Date:August 1898

"At Christmas Time" (Russian: На святках|translit=Na svyatkakh) is a 1900 short story by Anton Chekhov.

Publication

On 1 December Sergey Khudekov, the editor and publisher of Peterburgskaya Gazeta sent Chekhov a letter asking for a Christmas story. By late December the story had been finished. It appeared in the No.1, January 1899 edition of this newspaper. With some minor changes Chekhov included it into Volume 12 of the 1903, second edition the Collected Works by A.P. Chekhov, published by Adolf Marks. It then appeared in Volume 11 of the posthumous, 1906 third edition.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Rodionova, V.M. Commentaries to На святках. The Works by A.P. Chekhov in 12 volumes. Khudozhestvennaya Literatura. Moscow, 1960. Vol. 8, pp. 552-553