The Death of a Government Clerk

"The Death of a Government Clerk" is a humorous story by the great Russian playwright Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904). Executor Ivan Dmitrievich Chervyakov once went to the theater, where a small incident happened to him embarrassment: he accidentally sneezed on civilian general Brizzhalov. The comic plot is complemented by accurate and capacious details that fully reveal the essence of the...