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A Nightmare: Bilingual Edition (English - Russian)
A Nightmare: Bilingual Edition (English - Russian)
A Nightmare: Bilingual Edition (English - Russian)
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Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel.
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Release dateMay 13, 2018
A Nightmare: Bilingual Edition (English - Russian)
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Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian doctor, short-story writer, and playwright. Born in the port city of Taganrog, Chekhov was the third child of Pavel, a grocer and devout Christian, and Yevgeniya, a natural storyteller. His father, a violent and arrogant man, abused his wife and children and would serve as the inspiration for many of the writer’s most tyrannical and hypocritical characters. Chekhov studied at the Greek School in Taganrog, where he learned Ancient Greek. In 1876, his father’s debts forced the family to relocate to Moscow, where they lived in poverty while Anton remained in Taganrog to settle their finances and finish his studies. During this time, he worked odd jobs while reading extensively and composing his first written works. He joined his family in Moscow in 1879, pursuing a medical degree while writing short stories for entertainment and to support his parents and siblings. In 1876, after finishing his degree and contracting tuberculosis, he began writing for St. Petersburg’s Novoye Vremya, a popular paper which helped him to launch his literary career and gain financial independence. A friend and colleague of Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, and Ivan Bunin, Chekhov is remembered today for his skillful observations of everyday Russian life, his deeply psychological character studies, and his mastery of language and the rhythms of conversation.

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    A Nightmare - Anton Chekhov

    A NIGHTMARE

    Bilingual Edition

    English - Russian

    Anton Chekhov

    translated by

    Constance Garnett

    A Nightmare

    Кошмар

    Kunin, a young man of thirty, who was a permanent member of the Rural Board, on returning from Petersburg to his district, Borisovo, immediately sent a mounted messenger to Sinkino, for the priest there, Father Yakov Smirnov.

    Непременный член по крестьянским делам присутствия Кунин, молодой человек, лет тридцати, вернувшись из Петербурга в свое Борисово, послал первым делом верхового в Синьково за тамошним священником, отцом Яковом Смирновым.

    Five hours later Father Yakov appeared.

    Часов через пять отец Яков явился.

    Very glad to make your acquaintance, said Kunin, meeting him in the entry.

    — Очень рад познакомиться! — встретил его в передней Кунин.

    "I’ve been living and serving here for a year; it seems as though we ought to have been acquainted before.

    — Уж год, как живу и служу здесь, пора бы, кажется, быть знакомыми.

    You are very welcome!

    Милости просим!

    But... how young you are!" Kunin added in surprise.

    Но, однако... какой вы молодой! — удивился Кунин.

    What is your age?

    — Сколько вам лет?

    Twenty-eight,... said Father Yakov, faintly pressing Kunin’s outstretched hand, and for some reason turning crimson.

    — Двадцать восемь-с... — проговорил отец Яков, слабо пожимая протянутую руку и, неизвестно отчего, краснея.

    Kunin led his visitor into his study and began looking at him more attentively.

    Кунин ввел гостя к себе в кабинет и принялся его рассматривать.

    What an uncouth womanish face! he thought.

    «Какое аляповатое, бабье лицо!» — подумал он.

    There certainly was a good deal that was womanish in Father Yakov’s face: the turned-up nose, the bright red cheeks, and the large grey-blue eyes with scanty, scarcely perceptible eyebrows.

    Действительно, в лице отца Якова было очень много «бабьего»: вздернутый нос, ярко-красные щеки и большие серо-голубые глаза с жидкими, едва заметными бровями.

    His long reddish hair, smooth and dry, hung down in straight tails on to his shoulders.

    Длинные рыжие волосы, сухие и гладкие, спускались на плечи прямыми палками.

    The hair on his upper lip was only just beginning to form into a real masculine moustache, while his little beard belonged to that class of good-for-nothing beards which among divinity students are for some reason called ticklers. It was scanty and extremely transparent; it could not have been stroked or combed, it could only have been pinched....

    Усы еще только начинали формироваться в настоящие, мужские усы, а бородка принадлежала к тому сорту никуда не годных бород, который у семинаристов почему-то называется «скоктанием»: реденькая, сильно просвечивающая; погладить и почесать ее гребнем нельзя, можно разве только пощипать...

    All these scanty decorations were put on unevenly in tufts, as though Father Yakov, thinking to dress up as a priest and beginning to gum on the

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