# Story by Anton Chekhov 'The Burbot'. A literary plot

Henry de Overwood

MMMDCCXII. Story by Anton Chekhov 'The Burbot'. A literary plot. - October 21, 2025.

Story by Anton Chekhov 'The Burbot'. A literary plot.


Nikolai Alexandrovich walks around the office. The construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway has begun! Soon, money will start pouring in!


The adjutant brings a package from Vladimir Fedorovich. In the package, among the papers, is a small Moscow magazine.


In the magazine is the story "The Burbot."


A rather unpleasant story. Some kind of inexplicable unease.


Ivan Alexandrovich arrives. On the table is the small Moscow magazine. The magazine was opened on the first page of the story "The Burbot."


The author of "The Burbot" is transmitted from Nikolai Alexandrovich, the owner of the small Moscow magazine, to Alexei Sergeyevich.


The author of "The Burbot" sees terrible dreams: a frightening cold river, a cemetery.


Soon he receives the means for travel expenses (from Alexei Sergeyevich) and sets off across Siberia to Sakhalin Island.


During the crossing of the Tobol River, he almost drowned.


It's a terrifying situation. He has a large sum of money for the long journey, and around him are unfamiliar wild people and desolate places.


But he did not drown, and he was not killed.


He returned (from Sakhalin) to European Russia by steamer (via the Suez Canal). And in the letter, he wrote something good about the English... Quite lucky he is, somehow...


Nikolai Alexandrovich is walking around the office. Unpleasant things are ... concerning the Chinese Eastern Railway and Port Arthur...


And... What to do with the author of 'The Burbot'?


May be, to award him with the Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd class... Probably, he'll buy an estate, will marry, will stop writing 'Burbots'?... Will he write something pleasant?..


A some unpleasant feeling. A some inexplicable anxiety.


October 21, 2025, 02:32


Translation from Russian into English: October 20, 2025, 04:25

Владимир Владимирович Залесский ' Рассказ А.П. Чехова 'Налим'. Литературный сюжет. '


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