Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. And The Oh, Anton Pavlievichtchekov was a Russian position and supreme short story writer and playwright.

He was the third of six children.

His father was a grocer, painter, and religious fanatic with a mercurial temperament who thrashed his children

and was likely emotionally abusive to his wife.

Check off, like Dickens, was no stranger to financial hardship.

And in 1875, his father took the family and fled to

Moscow to escape creditors. Checkoff stayed behind for three more years to finish

school. He paid for his tuition by catching and selling gold finches and dispensing private tutoring

lessons and selling short sketches to the newspaper.

He sent any money he could spare to his family in Moscow.

Checkoff is considered an exemplar author in the genre of realism.

While attending classes at Moscow State University, he wrote and sold a large number of humorous stories and

vignettes of contemporary Russian life.

He published more than 400 short stories, sketches and vignettes by the age of 26.

Some consider Checkoff to be the founder of the Modern Short Story

and his influence is observed in a diverse group of writers including Flannery O'Connor, Tennessee Williams, Somerset mom, Raymond Carver, and John Shever.

In 1897, Checkoff wrote a trilogy featuring Ivan Ivanovich, a veterinary surgeon, and his schoolmaster friend, Birken.

The two were on a small trekking and shooting holiday.

Check-off overlays three stories that are amongst his most famous short stories in a trilogy sometimes

referred to as The Little Trilogy.

The three short stories in order are The Man in the Case, Gooseberries, and About Love,

which is today's story, a story about love and missed opportunities.

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