"Chekhov, prime fare of the Soviet schoolroom"

[Alina Israeli]

Fortunately I was spared this trauma; I accidentally read several 
volumes of Chekhov short stories at the age of 13 and school could not 
kill the early perception. The writer whom I thoroughly abhorred to the 
point of nausea thanks to the Soviet schooling was Nekrasov. It took 
exactly 15 years since the moment I left the Soviet Union to appreciate 
him. Interestingly enough at that time I encountered "newcomers" to the 
US, I recognized on their faces my old feelings when talking about Nekrasov.

AI

Olga Meerson wrote:
> Of all the Russian classics poisoned by Soviet education, Chekhov took me the longest to start rediscovering after that education. 
>   

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