Chekhov's grave at the Novo Dovichy Cemetery in Moscow. When Chekhov dies, one of Russia's staunchest friends will have died, a clever, just and up right friend, a friend who loves her and feels for her in everything, and all Russia will be shaken with grief and will long remember him, and long learned to understand life from his writings illuminated with a sad smile of a loving heart, from his stories permeated with a deep knowledge of life, why is impartiality and sympathy for people, not pity, but the sympathy of a clever, sensitive and understanding man. M Gorky. Undated Supplied by; SCRSS - Society for Cooperation in Russian And Soviet Studies.