Kashtanka
Sign in to save"Kashtanka" () is an 1887 short story by Anton Chekhov. It follows the adventures, mostly in the circus, of a mongrel dog of the same name. The story was adapted into several films.
Key facts
- Short story.name
- Kashtanka
- Short story.title_orig
- Каштанка
- Short story.image
- Kashtanka 01 (Kardovsky).jpg
- Short story.imagesize
- 220px
- Short story.caption
- Kashtanka, Fedyushka and Luka Alexandrovich1903 illustration by Dmitry Kardovsky
- Short story.author
- Anton Chekhov
- Short story.country
- Russia
- Short story.language
- Russian
- Short story.published_in
- Novoye Vremya
- Short story.pub_date
- 25 December 1887 (old style)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Anton Chekhov
- Country of origin
- Russian Empire
- Narrative location
- Russian Empire
- Image
- Kashtanka 05 (Kardovsky).jpg
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- language of work or name
- Russian
- first line
- Молодая рыжая собака - помесь такса с дворняжкой - очень похожая мордой на лисицу, бегала взад и вперед по тротуару и беспокойно оглядывалась по сторонам.
- publication date
- 1887-12-25
- title
- В учёном обществе
- Commons category
- Kashtanka
- inception
- 1887-00-00
- published in
- Novoye Vremya
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- novelette
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Encyclopedic overview
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"Kashtanka" () is an 1887 short story by Anton Chekhov. It follows the adventures, mostly in the circus, of a mongrel dog of the same name. The story was adapted into several films.
==Publication== The story was first published in Novoye Vremyas No. 4248, 25 December (old style) 1887 issue, originally under the title "In Learned Society" (В учёном обществе; V uchyonom obschestve).
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