We continue to familiarize ourselves with the mysteries of Russian writers. Today new interesting facts await us.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich had very poor eyesight, and his right eye was nearsighted and his left farsighted. Because of this, he constantly wore a pince-nez.
One of A.P. Chekhov's closest friends was Peter Tchaikovsky. The writer even dedicated to him a work called "A Gloomy Morning".
Possessed a remarkable intuition. Having met
S. Rachmaninoff, said: "
You will make a great man". When S. Rachmaninov asked how he knew this, A.P. Chekhov replied: "
It's written on your face".
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Another time, when the writer was a guest of K. Stanislavsky, an acquaintance dropped by. AP Chekhov watched the guest for a long time, and when he left asked who it was. К. Stanislavsky asked what so interested AP Chekhov in the guest, and the writer replied: "However, after all, he is a suicide". And indeed, a few years later this man committed suicide - he poisoned himself.
Sold his books to other authors who published them under their own names. Little Anton Chekhov was called "Bomba" because his head was too big. However, he did not take offense at this. According to the memories of relatives, Antosha was the calmest son among the children. He collected stamps.
The writer's contemporaries said that he always carried a notebook in which he wrote down passages of conversations he had overheard that interested him. Later he used them in his works.
Leo Tolstoy
By the time he was in his 50s, he stopped eating meat. Knew his wife when she was very young and even babysat her. Considered "
War and Peace" to be "
many words of nonsense."
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Loved manual labor - for example, sewing boots. Refused the Nobel Prize.
Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy
He was very strong - he could bend a horseshoe, knot a poker, tear a deck of cards, press a nail into the wall without the help of a hammer, throw a two-pound weight (32 kg) over the outhouse of his manor.
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He was interested in spiritualism and mysticism. Hunted
bear, armed with a slingshot. He was a philatelist - he collected stamps.
Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky
He loved theater and founded the Artistic Circle. His first play was "Notes of an Overseas Resident" and his first published play was "Waiting for the Bridegroom". Author of the first translations of
U. Shakespeare.
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Very fond of fishing. He loved to make things - in the museum
A.N. Ostrovsky there is a table and a bookshelf that he made himself.
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov
He was lazy and apathetic, and had the nickname of Prince de Sloth. He was very attached to the children of his late servant, and gave them all a good upbringing and education. He had been to Japan, and was very dissatisfied with the natives. I should say it was mutual.
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Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov had a small dog named Mimimishka. He loved her very much and almost never parted with her. He lived in the Czech town of Mariansk-Lazne, where he wrote
Oblomov. Later a monument to the writer was erected there.