Today, our reader is educated, collected, and accustomed to grasping information in one close look. One: and we already know about Schrodinger's cat, two (during lunch) — a six-month preparation for a marathon with sports nutrition is in my head, the third time the soul and mind are asked to slow down and read something to think about. This is where we need our magnificent collector's collection with the telling title "Weddings, Pities, sufferings" by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. None of A. P. Chekhov's heroes live in the present. "Hence this constant Chekhov motif, this unchanging "let's be" of his characters, aiming somewhere in a bright tomorrow: we will work, we will be rich, we will be happy," writes Armen Zakharyan, a literary critic with a serious and large-scale audience of subscribers on the Internet, in the introductory article to the collection. Armen Zakharyan explains how a "modest philological doctor" brought weak, awkward, unhappy people who are unable to change into literature. From "The Lady with the Dog" to "The Three Sisters", from "The Man in the Case" to "Uncle Vanya". Anton Chekhov's characters are stuck in their lives, desperately hoping for its magical transformation, but they themselves do not move: there are no forces, circumstances are their despots. No one will go anywhere, no one will learn anything, no one will even get poisoned normally. These pale, pale colors by Anton Chekhov have been evoking the strongest emotions for more than 100 years all over the world. Because even despite the invention of talking helpers around the house, no one cancels the longing for a happy life, made by someone for you.