Long approached Chekhov for the permission to translate several of his stories into English. Chekhov included it into the Volume VIII of his Collected Works, published in 1899–1901 by Adolf Marks. The same year it was included into the Novellas and Stories (Повести и рассказы) collection. The story, divided into nine chapters and described by Chekhov as a "medical novella, historia morbi", portraying a "young man suffering from delusions of grandeur", was first published by The Artist (No 1, January 1894 issue). The story tells of the last two tragic years in the life of a fictitious scholar, Andrey Vasilyevich Kovrin. It was first published in 1894 in The Artist, one of the leading Russian magazines on theater and music in the last quarter of the 19th century. " The Black Monk" ( Russian: Чёрный монах, romanized: Chyorny monakh) is a short story by Anton Chekhov, written in 1893 while Chekhov was living in the village of Melikhovo.
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