Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Stackelberg | Nikolay Nekrasov | Nikolay Atanasov | Nikolay Rumyantsev | Nikolay Pirogov | Nikolay Bogolyubov | Nikolay Trusov | Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky | Nikolay Strunnikov | Nikolay Semyonov | Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky | Nikolay Kozlov | Nikolay Kostomarov | Nikolay Haytov | Nikolay Gnedich | Nikolay Antonov | Yuri Aleksandrovich Petukhov | Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Karev | Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev | Sergei Aleksandrovich Osipov | Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy | Oleg Aleksandrovich Smirnov | Nikolay Yegorovich Makarov | Nikolay Vasilyevich Komarov | Nikolay Smolensky | Nikolay Shkot | Nikolay Raevsky (died 1843) | Nikolay Petrovich Fyodorov | Nikolay Okhlopkov | Nikolay Muravyov |
According to archive records, the first books read by Chekhov were books on travel and adventures, then Miguel de Cervantes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ivan Turgenev and Ivan Goncharov, later - Dimitri Pisarev, Vissarion Belinsky and Nikolay Aleksandrovich Dobrolyubov.