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The Requiem (short story)

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he simply fails to understand why the clergymen are so offended by the word ‘harlot’ with which he described her occupation. The rendition of the prayers awaken in Andrey Andreyitch some tender memories of his beautiful, sensitive and intelligent girl, yet even mentally he keeps referring to her as ‘harlot’ for he can't see how an actress could be described otherwise.
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Answering Suvorin's letter, Chekhov wrote on 6 March (o.s. 21 February): "Thank you for your kind words on my stories and for publishing this one so promptly... I share your opinion considering the finale which you dropped and am grateful for your criticism which I found very constructive. I've been
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Andrey Andreyitch, a shopkeeper, comes to the local village church to ask for prayers for his recently deceased daughter Maria, and is chided by the priest for the wrong kind of language that he'd used in his written request. The shopkeeper's daughter was an actress, and quite a well known one, and
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with great pleasure but failed to notice in it any old spinster that you'd mentioned." Chekhov's original manuscript has been lost and there is only the
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writing for six years now but you are the first editor who'd taken the trouble of proving a perfectly reasonable explanation for the cut you've made."
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s (o.s.) 15 February, No. 3581, 1886 issue, in the Subbotniks section. With minor changes it made its way into the
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Gruzinsky, A. About Chekhov // А. Грузинский. О Чехове. Русская правда. 1904. №99
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Shub, E. M. Commentaries to Панихида. The Works by A.P. Chekhov in 12 volumes.
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Chekhov, for whom this would be the first publication in
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Index

Short story
Anton Chekhov
Russia
Russian
Russian
romanized
Anton Chekhov
Novoye Vremya
Viktor Bilibin



Khudozhestvennaya Literatura
Панихида
The Requiem
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Anton Chekhov
Bibliography
Platonov
On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco
Swansong
Ivanov
The Bear
A Tragedian in Spite of Himself
The Wedding
Tatiana Repina
The Wood Demon
A Marriage Proposal

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