power the darker sides of life, eliciting in him either irony, or satiric smile or grief and sorrow." According to the reviewer, "Chekhov's Vera is another fine and true portrait in the vast gallery of Russian women," starting from Pushkin's Tatyana, sharing the same pain of broken dreams and shattered lives. V. Albov in Mir Bozhiy felt disappointed with how Vera Kardina "totally refuses to resist" what seems to be he fate, much in the vein of many other Chekhov's female characters, who "easily give themselves to whatever monster comes their way." The critic explained this as part of Chekhov's peculiar attitude towards his characters. "A lonely, doomed dreamer, living in the society where the great majority is being driven by animal instincts, this picture appealed to Chekhov a lot," Albov wrote in 1903. Notes References External links В родном углу. The original Russian text At Home, Constance Garnett 1916 translation Short stories by Anton Chekhov 1897 short stories Works originally published in Russian newspapers