a work in progress
...sium with honors and moved onto a university in Moscow. There he was again pressed into the service of his family. He wrote stories and sketches for humorous magazines while attending school. He eventually completed medical school and began practicing, but realized that his true career path was not in medicine but writing. By 1888 he was considered a top writer and contributing to many major literary journals. He settled on a country estate outside of Moscow where continued to write and practice medicine. Unfortunately poor health forced him to move to Yalta in 1898, but with out which he may have never wrote his most influential and famous story “The Lady with the Little Dog”. He married Olga Knipper in 1901 and died of turbucleus in Germany three years later. The trilogy of three stories: “The man in the case”, “Goose Berries”, and “About Love”, are about three friends in the country side. It starts out with two huntsmen setting up camp inside of a barn just outside of the tiny country village of Mironsotskoe. One of the men is Burkin, a school teacher and the other Ivan Ivanych a veterinary surgeon. Chekhov first describes Ivan as a tall old man with a long mustache, and later in the Trilogy describes Burkin as a short fat man with a large bushy beard, kind of a funny image when you think of the two of them walking together. This is something that I hadn’t realized until I had read through the trilogy several times. The first story “The man in the Case” is told by Burkin. The two men were relaxing and telling stories after a day of hunting in the country. Talk of there host’s wife Mavra invoked Burkin to tell the story of Belikov, a Greek teacher. Belkiov was despis...