Intertextuality in such approach is based on the application of our knowledge to composition of the world of a literary text. The term ‘intertextuality’ refers to different ways of interpretation, while interpretations of a text depend on the knowledge about other texts of an author and numerous non-textual aspects. Equally important seems to be the layer of associated implied meanings. In the article it has been considered the methodology presented by Professor Lew Nowikow in his analyses of the poem by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin entitled I have erected a monument to myself / Я памятник себе воздвиг… The category of intertextuality has been presented here on the examples of selected works by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov – satirical m...