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Differing details of death[edit]

"To his horror he (Chekhov) learned a couple of weeks later that the emotionally unstable Garshin had committed suicide by throwing himself down his stairway. Chekhov willingly agreed to contribute a story to a memorial volume in his honor. And to Suvorin he wrote: 'An unendurable life! But a stairway, that is terrible. I saw it: dark, dirty.' (April 3, 1888.)" - Simmons, Ernest (1962). Chekhov, A Biography. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 149. ~ Alcmaeonid (talk) 21:57, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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From the short bio I just read (which is not at hand) I recall that he died by throwing himself down a flight of stairs. He volunteered, rather than was conscripted. Also he was with his father from 5-8 or somesuch, when his mother ran away with her lover and his two brothers? This needs to be sorted out. - BalthCat (talk) 07:24, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

French WP says he tried to commit suicide by jumping down a flight of stairs and dying later of his injuries. German WP doesn't have a lot of detail but mentions the stairs.

Varlaam (talk) 01:02, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]