The Portrait is a story by which Ukrainian dramatist?
The Portrait (Gogol short story) "The Portrait" (Russian: Портрет ) is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, originally published in the short story collection "Arabesques" in 1835. It is one of Gogols’ most demonic of tales, hinting at some of his earlier works such as "St. John's Eve" and "Viy".
A Dreary Story A Dreary Story (Russian: Скучная история , "Skuchnaya istoriya " , translated also as "A Boring Story") is a 1889 novella by Anton Chekhov, subtitled "From the Notebooks of an Old Man". Influenced by the death of Chekhov's brother Nikolay from tuberculosis, it has been described as one of Chekhov's most enduring works, and as "a penetrating study into the mind of an elderly and dying professor of medicine".