The Black Monk

"The Black Monk"
"The Black Monk"
Short story by Anton Chekhov
	1908 illustration by G.K. Savitsky
Original title	Чёрный монах
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Publication
Published in	The Artist
Publisher	Adolf Marks (1901)
Publication date	January 1894

"The Black Monk" (Russian: Чёрный монах, romanized: Chyorny monakh) is a short story by Anton Chekhov, written in 1893 while Chekhov was living in the village of Melikhovo. It was first published in 1894 in The Artist, one of the leading Russian magazines on theater and music in the last quarter of the 19th century.^[1] The story tells of the last two tragic years in the life of a fictitious scholar, Andrey Vasilyevich Kovrin.

^ Commentaries to Чёрный монах. Чехов А. П. Черный монах // Чехов А. П. Полное собрание сочинений и писем: В 30 т. Сочинения: В 18 т. /АН СССР; Ин-т мировой лит. им. А. М. Горького. — М.: Наука, 1974—1982. Т. 8. [Рассказы. Повести], 1892—1894. — 1977.

[commentaries_77-1] Commentaries to Чёрный монах. Чехов А. П. Черный монах // Чехов А. П. Полное собрание сочинений и писем: В 30 т. Сочинения: В 18 т. /АН СССР; Ин-т мировой лит. им. А. М. Горького. — М.: Наука, 1974—1982. Т. 8. [Рассказы. Повести], 1892—1894. — 1977.

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