Vanka

Vanka is a short story by Anton Chekhov. It was first published on December 25, 1886 in the Russian newspaper Peterburgskaya gazeta.

With this story, Chéjov criticizes the European society of the second half of the nineteenth century, especially the mistreatment and marginalization suffered by many orphaned children at the time of the author. Argument

A Christmas Eve Vanka Chukov, an orphan child of 9 years, begins to write a letter addressed to his grandfather from the house of shoemaker Alojin in Moscow. In it, Vanka tells him about the hardships that are happening (the mistreatment of the shoemaker, the misery in which he lives, the loneliness he feels ...) and finally begs him to go and live with him in his village. >

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