«Дама с собачкой» (English: "The Lady with the Dog") is a short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in 1899. It describes an adulterous affair between Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, an unhappily married Moscow banker, and Anna Sergeyevna Von Diderits, a young married woman, an affair which begins while both are vacationing alone in the Crimean sea resort of Yalta.