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157:(А. Чехонте). On 27 (o.s. 14) February he received a telegram from the newspaper asking for the permission to publish it under his real name. "Chekhov gave such a permission, but regretted it, for he was planning to publish something in medical journals and was keeping his real name for serious articles," A.S. Lazarev-Gruzinsky opined in his memoirs.
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141:(В сумерках, V sumerkakh) 1887 collection (to be reproduced in its 2–13, 1888–1899 editions). With several more minor changes it was included by the author into Volume 3 of his Collected Works which were published by Adolph Marks in 1899–1901.
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