Maksim Gorky’s Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov is one of the great literary memoirs — a series of affectionate, luminous sketches capturing Chekhov as friend, writer, and human being. Gorky, who would become one of the most important writers of the Soviet era, met Chekhov at the end of the older man’s life and preserved in these pages a sense of his quiet, ironic, irreplaceable presence.
Essential reading for anyone devoted to Chekhov’s fiction, this brief and beautiful work is freely available as an EPUB download. Read it as a companion to his stories and plays.