"Kashtanka" is an 1887 short story by Anton Chekhov. The dog Kashtanka belongs to a drunken carpenter who takes her out one day, but on the way home loses her in the confusion of a military parade. The story is told by an omniscient narrator who privileges Kashtanka's point of view, so we follow the dog's subsequent adventures largely from her eyes. We offer you this bilingual English-Russian edition, believing that reading parallel texts and inferring the vocabulary and grammar is a far superior method of language learning than traditional memorization. It is also much less painful.