偉大的俄罗斯作家安东·巴甫洛維奇·契訶夫的名字,在中国是为广大的读者所熟悉的。他的不朽的作品,远从20世紀初叶起就被譯成中文,甚至就是在今天,他的作品也仍为我們的讀者所喜爱和閱讀着。当1954年契訶夫逝世50周年时,茅盾在一篇紀念文章中就曾經講起过这种情形:“在世界古典文学 The name of the great Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is familiar to most readers in China. His monumental work far from the early 20th century has been translated into Chinese, even today, his works are still loved and read by our readers. When the 50th anniversary of the death of Chekhov in 1954, Mao Dun once mentioned in a memorial article such a situation: ”in the world of classical literature