Kashtanka

"Kashtanka"
Short story by Anton Chekhov
Kashtanka, Fedyushka and Luka Alexandrovich
1903 illustration by Dmitry Kardovsky
Original titleКаштанка
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Publication
Published inNovoye Vremya
Publication date25 December 1887 (old style)

"Kashtanka" (Russian: Каштанка) is an 1887 short story by Anton Chekhov. It follows the adventures, mostly in the circus, of a mongrel dog of the same name. The story was adapted into several films.