"In Exile" (Russian: В ссылке, romanized: V ssylke) is an 1892 short story by Anton Chekhov.
Of these two instances he informed both his relatives (in a 16 May letter) and his regular correspondent, the children writer Maria Vladimirovna Kiselyova.
Old Simeon, known as Tolkovy (Brainy) listens to him with disdain, for he had brought himself "to such a point that [he] can sleep naked on the ground and eat grass", in his own words.
Tolkovy relates the story of Vasily Sergeyevich, a nobleman, whose life here in exile was full of desires, frustrations and downfalls.
Pyotr Bykov, the literary editor of Vsemirnaya Illustratsiya, admired the story, according to Ieronim Yasinsky's memoirs.