Anna on the neck

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Anton Chekhov

Anna in the neck ( Russian Анна на шее , Anna na scheje) is a story of Russian writer Anton Chekhov , in the 22 October 1895 the Moscow daily newspaper Russkiye Vedomosti published.

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The 18-year-old half-orphan Anna, called Anja, married the 52-year-old civil servant Modest Alexejitsch. Anja's father Pyotr Leontjitsch and her brothers, high school students Petja and Andrjuscha, wave to the two honeymooners from the platform.

Anja's father, a high school teacher for drawing and calligraphy , is drinking his salary and the two brothers are walking around in broken shoes.

Anja is afraid and disgusted with her elderly, boring husband. Ridiculous this honeymoon - a two-day visit to a distant monastery. While the train stops at a station, Anja makes a brief acquaintance with the wealthy womanizer Artynow. It gives the unfortunate one a vague feeling of happiness: Who knows - maybe the tide will turn.

When Anja - back home - takes her husband to the theater, this rich miser drinks a bottle of seltzer all by himself during the long break at the buffet. Modest Alexejitsch does not give Anja a kopeck. Before the marriage she had sometimes received a few rubles from her father. When Pyotr Leontjitsch called in and asked for a few rubles, the son-in-law did not refuse, but made the loan subject to a condition. The father should give up his drinking - an impossibility.

The civil servant Modest Alexejitsch is looking for the order of Saint Anne, second class . So he has to represent. Anja, who is addicted to cleaning, actually receives a hundred rubles from her husband for a new ball gown.

In the large ballroom, Anja feels rich, free for the first time in her life and - surrounded by officers, teachers, lawyers, civil servants and landowners - enjoys bathing in the rushing crowd. Anja dances the waltz , polka and quadrille - constantly changing dance partners, but avoiding her husband. Anja's father approaches during a break and regrets the daughter's hasty marriage: "I know, you did it for us, but ..."

The young dancer stands out. His Excellency Artynov takes care of Anja personally, taking her to his wife, who sells at a small charity bazaar, as the second saleswoman. Anja takes one hundred ruble notes after the other. Even Anja's father - otherwise short of money - surprisingly gives ten rubles. The next lunchtime, Artynow visits Anja in the apartment and thanks her for her cooperation with the bazaar. From then on Anja passed the time with Artynow.

St. Annenorden 2nd class on the neck (3rd from left) and in the buttonhole (2nd from left)

Modest Alexejitsch then changes his behavior. The officer suddenly crawls in front of his wife at home, almost as he does in the office in front of his superior. Anjas reacts to such behavior with: “Go out, you wretches!” From then on Anja spends her husband's money with full hands.

Modest Alexejitsch receives the targeted medal. When he thanks, His Excellency says: "... now you have three Annen ... one in the buttonhole and two on the neck."

Adaptations

Film adaptations

ballet

  • 1982, Lenfilm Saint Petersburg: Anjuta TV ballet by Alexander Belinsky.

German-language editions

Used edition

  • Anna am Halse , p. 261–279 in Anton Chekhov: Stories from everyday life. Translated from Russian and provided with a foreword by Leo Borchard . 279 pages. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag GmbH, Weimar 1938 (edition from 1950, see also reprint: p. 220 in: Anton P. Chekhov: The thick and thin at nexx-verlag.de).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian entry at fantlab.ru
  2. ↑ Edition used, p. 279, 1. Zvo
  3. ↑ Russian Чины и люди
  4. ↑ Russian Стрелкова, Мария Павловна
  5. ↑ Russian Анна на шее (фильм)
  6. ↑ Russian Киностудия имени М. Горького
  7. ↑ Russian Ларионова, Алла Дмитриевна
  8. ↑ Heart without love in the IMDb
  9. ↑ Russian Анюта (фильм-балет) , see also Анюта (балет)
  10. ↑ Russian Белинский, Александр Аркадьевич

Remarks

  1. ↑ Anton Chekhov is a masterly master of the concise form. With a few strokes he draws a person - here his Excellency's wife: “He took her [Anja] to a farmhouse to an elderly lady whose lower half of her face was disproportionately large, so that it appeared as if she was holding one in her mouth thick stone. "(edition used, p. 275, 6. Zvu)
  2. ↑ The commentary on page 5 of this reference briefly refers to the literary critic Juri Goworucha-Otrok (Russian Говоруха-Отрок, Юрий Николаевич ), who uses Alexander Ostrowski's comedy The Poor Bride from 1852 for comparison.