Produced by Jana Srna, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [ Transcriber's Notes: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation. Some corrections of spelling and punctuation have been made. They are listed at the end of the text. Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. ] REMINISCENCES OF ANTON CHEKHOV BY MAXIM GORKY, ALEXANDER KUPRIN and I. A. BUNIN TRANSLATED BY S. S. KOTELIANSKY and LEONARD WOOLF NEW YORK B. W. HUEBSCH, Inc. MCMXXI COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY B. W. HUEBSCH, Inc. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS FRAGMENTS OF RECOLLECTIONS BY MAXIM GORKY, 1 TO CHEKHOV'S MEMORY BY ALEXANDER KUPRIN, 29 A. P. CHEKHOV BY I. A. BUNIN, 91 ANTON CHEKHOV FRAGMENTS OF RECOLLECTIONS BY MAXIM GORKY Once he invited me to the village Koutchouk-Koy where he had a tiny strip of land and a white, two-storied house. There, while showing me his "estate," he began to speak with animation: "If I had plenty of money, I should build a sanatorium here for invalid village teachers. You know, I would put up a large, bright building--very bright, with large windows and lofty rooms. I would have a fine library, different musical instruments, bees, a vegetable garden, an orchard.... There would be lectures on agriculture, mythology.... Teachers ought to know everything, everything, my dear fellow." He was suddenly silent, coughed, looked at me out of the corners of his eyes, and smiled that tender, charming smile of his which attracted one so irresistibly to him and made one listen so attentively to his words.