"Drained a glass to the bottom, fell asleep and did not wake up any more"

The observer radio station "Kommersant-FM" Voronkov Petr tells about the last days the writer and his funeral. Photo: PD NOVODEVICHYE CEMETERY today, grave Chekhov Anton Pavlovich. Here listen to dialogue: "What it for public was? I do not know. Got on trees and — laughed, broke crosses and swore because of places, loudly asked: "Which wife? And sister? Look — cry! "". It from memoirs of the eyewitness. All buried Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Moscow, by miracle did not suppress each other and did not carry a cemetery — was very close to that. Shalyapin began to cry and began to swear on crowd: "And for this swine he lived, and for her worked, learned...