CHEKHOV AS A CUSTOMS OFFICER
The article is devoted to biography of Alexander Pavlovich Chekhov (1855–1913) – novelist, essayist and memoirist, the elder brother of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, who worked in Taganrog, Saint-Petersburg and Novorossiysk customs from 1882 to 1886. Since 1886 Alexander Pavlovich Chekhov was a professional news reporter and novelist, staff writer of the newspaper «The New Times», also was published in «The St.Petersburg newspaper», «The Fragments», «The Historical Journal», «Caucasus», «The Smolensk Journal» and in general number of other magazines and newspapers. He wrote under the pseudonym of Agafopod Edinitsyn, Aloe, Gusev, Pan Halyavsky, and since 1886 under the name of A.Grey. Author of great many reporter's notes, essays, nonfiction and popular science articles incredibly broad thematic range: from fire-fighting files and photographs to the issues of alcoholism and charity for persons with a mental problems. As a writer, he succeeded in the 80's of XIX century. His favorite genre is a novel or a short story, where the main hero is a petty official or employee, intent in everyday problems. The ending. The beginning: Scientific Letters of Russian customs academy St.-Petersburg branch named after Vladimir Bobkov. – 2010. – № 2 (36). – P. 266–281.