Who is he, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, so understandable and beloved since childhood and increasingly “complicated” as we get older, acquiring almost incomprehensible philosophical depth? A graduate of a provincial gymnasium, who came to Moscow to study as a “doctor”, at the end of his life who met his greatest love, a man who made the glory of not only Russian, but also all world literature, who lived only forty-four years, but seemed like the wisest old man, it was he who became the hero of a new brilliant study by the famous French writer Henri Troyat.