Whitebrow

"Whitebrow" (Russian: Белолобый, romanized: Belolobyi) is an 1895 short story by Anton Chekhov published by Children's Reading (Detskoye Chteniye) magazine.

Chekhov sent "Whitebrow" to the editor Dmitry Tikhomirov in April 1895, but it was published only in the November 1895 issue of Detskoye Chteniye (Children's Reading), with the illustrations by B.I.

In 1899 it appeared in an anthology called "Russian Writers' Tales of Life and Nature", compiled by M. Vasilyev and the same year came out as a separate edition, published in Moscow by M.V.

Rossolimo for his Library for Children project, Chekhov made the following comment in a 21 January 1900 letter: "What I do have for the young readership, is just two fairytales from doggies' lives, and that is all...

Old man Ignat, who is convinced that it is the pup who for the second night in a row plays havok with the stall's roof, having chosen it as a way of entering the place, expresses a very, very low view on Whitebrow's level of intelligence.