How to write like Anton Chekhov

4 writing lessons from a literary mastodon who will make your heart flutter

The image was made by my boyfriend Serhiy Volosianyi.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is the first true love of my life. This Anton spent so much time with that Anton… I read many of his stories. I played in some of his plays. I memorised his words to read aloud at lessons and prose reading contests. Chekhov and I were entangled in a purely…