![]() ![]() ![]() Stealthily, he writes a letter to describe the unbearable life he leads in the house of the shoemaker Aliakhin, whom he serves as an apprentice for, suffering from hunger, abuse and humiliation. Synopsis Ī nine-year-old boy is in desperate need to convince his grandfather, his only relative (a wayward character, who seems to be totally indifferent to the boy's fate), to take him back to his country home. Chekhov included the story into Volume 4 of his Collected Works published by Adolf Marks in 1899–1901. In 1900, with unauthorized cuts, it appeared in a children's reader Zolotyie Kolosya (Golden Spikes). It made its way into the compilations Children (Детвора, 1889) to be reproduced unchanged in its second and third (1890, 1895) editions. In a slightly revised version, it was included into the 1888 collection Stories (Рассказы, Saint Petersburg) and appeared unchanged in all of its 1888–1899 re-issues. 354 (25 December new style: 7 January 1887), 1886 issue, in the Christmas Stories section, signed A. ![]() The story was first published in Peterburgskaya Gazeta 's No. " Vanka" ( Russian: Ванька) is an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov. 1953 illustration by Tatyana Shishmaryova ![]()
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