契诃夫说自己的第一职业是医生,第二职业才是作家,而妹妹玛丽雅的回忆录《遥远的过去》则告诉人们,他还有一个被严重忽略的身份:社会志愿者。契诃夫兄妹感情甚笃,妹妹为了支持哥哥的文学事业甚至终身未嫁。与很多关于契诃夫的传记不同,玛丽雅没在书中阐述契诃夫的文学,而是大量记录了哥哥生活中的琐事,正是这些鸡毛蒜皮的小事,让我们看到一个伟大的文学 Chekhov said his first occupation was a doctor, a second occupation was a writer, and his sister, Mariah Memoir, “Far Past,” told people that he had a seriously neglected identity: social volunteers. Chekhov brothers and sisters very deep feelings, my sister in order to support my brother’s literary career and never married. Unlike many of Chekhov’s biographies, Maria did not elaborate Chekhov’s literature in the book, but recorded a great deal of trivial matters in her brother’s life. It is these trivial trivial matters that allow us to see a great literature