The biography of the great Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), based on a serious, in-depth analysis of creativity and supplemented by archival photographs, reveals new, unexpected facets of life and writer's fate, allows you to feel his spiritual loneliness: “how will I lie in I’m alone in the grave, so in essence I live alone.” The breadth and variety of factual material, a reliable depiction of Chekhov’s era and environment, an unconventional approach to his biography, love for his hero - this is what distinguishes the book of Mikhail Petrovich Gromov. It is intended for a wide range of readers.