Chekhov “for” and “against” Dostoevsky (“A Hunting Drama” as parody-novel)

The article is based on the assumption that the plot of the novel “A Hunting Drama” develops on the model of pre-text, but mostly on the model of different texts at the same time. The author emphasizes that the novel represents the parody (or the hypertext more exactly with the elements as well as parody and stylization) - not to the criminal novel by E. Gaboriau and A. Shklyarevsky, but to the modern classical Russian literature in 1880-s. First of all there are art works by A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, N. Gogol, A. Ostrovsky, I. Turgenev and other. Final conclusions show that an exclusive role in “A Hunting Drama” plays satirical allusion to F. Dostoevsky. Measurably “A Hunting Drama” is deployed parody by Chekhov to Dostoevsky, and less to the works by many other Russian and Western European writers that plays a minor role in it.