A story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, written in 1888 based on the author’s impressions from a trip to the Azov region in the spring of 1887. It was first published in the magazine “Northern Bulletin”, 1888, No. 3...Uncle Ivan Ivanovich is taking his young nephew Yegorushka to study at the gymnasium. They are accompanied by a kind but practical priest, the rector of the local church, Father Christopher (Syriac). The nephew is sad because he left his home. On the way he meets many new people: the beautiful Countess Dranitskaya, transport workers, a family of Jews, the rich merchant Varlamov...