I got your letter when I was fearfully bored and was sitting at the gate yawning, and so you can judge how welcome that immense letter was.
An edition of Letters of Anton Chekhov to his family and friends: with biographical sketch
(1920)
Letters of Anton Tchehov
to his family and friends
by Антон Павлович Чехов and Constance Garnett (translator)
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From the book:In 1841 a serf belonging to a Russian nobleman purchased his freedom and the freedom of his family for 3,500 roubles, being at the rate of 700 roubles a soul, with one daughter, Alexandra, thrown in for nothing. The grandson of this serf was Anton Chekhov, the author; the son of the nobleman was Tchertkov, the Tolstoyan and friend of Tolstoy. There is in this nothing striking to a Russian, but to the English student it is sufficiently significant for several reasons. It illustrates how recent a growth was the educated middle-class in pre-revolutionary Russia, and it shows, what is perhaps more significant, the homogeneity of the Russian people, and their capacity for completely changing their whole way of life.
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