 The critic Anastasiya Chebotarevskaya compared Teffi's stories, which she said were "highly benevolent in their elegiac tone and profoundly humanitarian in their attitudes", to the best stories by Anton Chekhov.Teffi is buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery in France.In 2018, Edythe Haber's biography of Teffi was published, the first such work in any language.