The story, divided into nine chapters and described by Chekhov as a "medical novella, historia morbi", portraying a "young man suffering from delusions of grandeur",[2] was first published by The Artist (No 1, January 1894 issue). The same year it was included into the Novellas and Stories (Повести и рассказы) collection. Chekhov included it into the Volume VIII of his Collected Works, published in 1899–1901 by Adolf Marks.[3] On 7 July 1898 R.E.C. Long approached Chekhov for the permission to translate several of his stories into English.[4] The collection The Black Monk and Other Tales which came out in Britain in 1903, became the first to introduce British readership to Chekhov's writings.[5]
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