Ballad and parable in Anton Chekhov’s novel “Witch”

The masterpiece of a young Anton Chekhov (novel “Witch”) is considered as a intertextuality. The analyze show hidden connections with the well-known Fet’s ballad and middle-aged parables about “angry wives” and it can prove the output of dominating lyric and philosophical aspects in Checkov’s discourse of the second part of 1880th as well as about author’s controversy with the whole forms of didactizm in literature. It expands the view about Chekhov’s genre synthesis and genre experiments although as an ironic attitude Anton Chekhov to Fet.