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Wednesday, January 16 Russians: Self-Impressions (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* In dramatizations from the works of great Russian writers (Chekhov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Pasternak), a cast including Jo Van Fleet, Kim Hunter and Sam Wanamaker attempts to give insights into the Russian character...
...research of such exhaustive thoroughness that it discourages competitors. Among them: Edgar Johnson, of New York's City College, who owns Charles Dickens; Ernest J. Simmons, who took over Tolstoy with a whopping biography in 1946, recently became a two-man proprietor when his massive study of Chekhov (TIME, Oct. 19) came out; Harvard's Douglas Bush, who has monopolized Milton since 1945 and may set the 20th century endurance record as titleholder, a triumph only slightly tarnished by the fact that Milton can hardly be described as a hotly pursued property. Ex-Proprietor Boswell is himself...
...Chekhov, by Ernest J. Simmons. A classic scholarly biography...
...Lady with the Dog is a Russian movie that tells a story by Anton Chekhov and tells it simply and clearly from start to finish...
...Chekhov, by Ernest J. Simmons. An absorbing if overdetailed portrait of the mercurial Russian doctor who became, without meaning to, one of the world's great storytellers and playwrights...