Chekov's full creative tension life was comprehensively reflected in the memories of other famous contemporaries living at the same period. Bunin's, Gorky's, Kuprin's reminiscences of Chekov have sometimes not only historical and literary implications. Also artistic importance of the inner world of Chekov characterizes its relation to the most important events of the era and significant pages of his biography. Soviet literary criticism after huge work of his soviet followers finally set him free of slander and distortions of bourgeois criticism and established the authenticity of the scientific understanding of his work which is based on true evidences of contemporaries.