Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), the son of a grocer and a serf, worked as a physician and ran an open clinic for the poor while also writing the plays and short stories that have established him as one of the greatest figures in Russian literature. NYRB Classics also publishes Peasants and Other Stories, edited by Edmund Wilson.
Nikolay Chekhov was a painter and brother of Anton Chekhov. He died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one.
Maria Bloshteyn is a translator and scholar of Russian and American literature. She lives in Toronto.