"Ivan Matveyitch" is a short story by Anton Chekhov. The story contains an autobiographical element, according to Mikhail Chekhov who claimed: "This hero, Ivan Matveyich, is a true portrait of our brother Ivan, in those days when he, still destitute and before starting to teach, used to cross the whole of Moscow on foot, to Sokolniki, where the writer P. D. Boborykin lived, to copy his texts, the author dictating."