The Darling | Historical Context
Russian Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Chekhov’s innovations as a short story writer appeared on the Russian literary scene during a period of transition from what is termed the ‘‘golden age’’ of Russian literature to the ‘‘silver age.’’ The predominant literary style in Russia, beginning in the 1840s, was that of realism. Because the government exercised strict censorship over political expression, fiction writers took on the burden of expressing political views through their stories. Nikolai Gogol, an early master of the Russian short...
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