Evgeny Petrovich Goslavsky (Russian: Евгений Петрович Гославский, 30 April 1861 – 15 December 1917) was a Russian writer, playwright and poet. Born to the family of a landed gentry in the Ryazan Governorate, he started his literary career in the late 1880s, contributing mainly to the magazines of humour and satire, like Shut (Jester), Strekoza and Nablyudatel. Later his stories, poems and plays started to appear in The Artist, Russkaya Mysl and Teatral. In 1890s Goslavsky became known as a dramatist. His play Rasplata (Price to Pay) received the Griboyedov Prize in 1893 and was successfully staged at the Maly Theatre in Moscow. His 1894 comedy V razluke (Apart) was lauded by Anton Chekhov who expressed his delight in a personal letter. They became friends and continued to correspond until