The Story of an Unknown Man

The Story of an Unknown Man (Russian: Рассказ неизвестного человека) is an 1893 story by Anton Chekhov. It concerns a revolutionary working under cover as a servant, and, being the only one of Chekhov's major works to be set in St. Petersburg, shares some motifs with the works of Dostoevsky.^[1]

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1. James N. Loehlin The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov 2010 1139493523 p.92 "In addition to “The Steppe” and “The Duel” (1888 and 1891), his longest works include three stories from the Melikhovo period: “The Story of an Unknown Man” (completed in 1893), “Three Years” (1895), and “My Life” (1896). The first of these, about a revolutionary working under cover as a servant, has a melodramatic, Dostoevskian feeling; it is the only one of Chekhov's..."