In a slightly edited version it made its way into the Motley Stories (Пёстрые рассказы) 1886 collection.

In a 16 (old style: 3) February letter Chekhov informed Nikolai Leykin, hinting at possible problems with censorship: "Now I send you a story.

[1] Anyuta, a small, tired girl lives with Stepan Klotchkov, a medical student, in squalor, serving for him, besides other things as an anatomy model (for studying ribs, among other body parts).

She spends her time taking work as seamstress and, talking little, thinking a lot, mostly of how it happens that all of her former student partners have managed to somehow get out of here to some kind of better life while she is stuck in this place… Rather taken aback by his artist neighbor Fetisov's comments upon the 'unaesthetic' conditions he lives in, Klochkov decides to throw Anyuta out, then lets her stay for another week, out of pity.

"After Anyuta" stars Sophie Mae Reppert, Theo Solomon, and Blake Kubena and features cinematography from Irene Gomez Emilsson.