The 150th anniversary of Anton Chekhov's birth is celebrated this year. He has an excellent wikipedia entry from which this picture is taken.
I'm sure that the brilliant Chekhov would have been amused by the expression "Swedish Model": for some a reference to the Scandinavian political system and accompanying social values ; for others the prospect of some "light porn".
However, Chekhov's short story - a genre of which he is regarded as the master - entitled "The Head Gardener's Tale", a Swedish story told by a Russian, also seems to invoke an ambiguous set of values of the kind explored in some well known contemporary Scandinavian fiction.
