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A landowner is told, in his own house, that his relief work during the famine is worthless and his wife despises him - and the story simply follows what he does next. Chekhov practised medicine throughout his career, ran famine relief and cholera districts himself, and knew precisely how well-meaning gentlemen behave when the peasants are actually starving.
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A landowner is told, in his own house, that his relief work during the famine is worthless and his wife despises him - and the story simply follows what he does next. Chekhov practised medicine throughout his career, ran famine relief and cholera districts himself, and knew precisely how well-meaning gentlemen behave when the peasants are actually starving.
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