Though originally trained as a doctor, Anton P. Chekhov is known as a very productive Russian playwright and author of many short stories.
Biography
Anton P. Chekhov was born in 1860 in Taganrog in Southern Russia.
In 1876, the father - a shop owner, son of a former serf - was declared bankrupt, and the family moved to Moscow, leaving the young Chekhov in Taganrog, where he supported himself giving private lessons and writing for the paper. He joined the family in 1879 and entered Moscow University to study medicine, continuing his writing to support the family.
Though finishing his medical education in 1884, he only worked as a physician for a short time before he was hired by the newspaper Novoe Vremya, where he made his living. In the time that followed, Checkhov became well known in the literary circles of Moscow.
In 1887, he travelled to Ukraine to recover from illness, which inspired him to write several well-known works.
In 1890, Chekhov took a longer trip to Sakhalin, where he spent some time in the penal colony. This period had a great personal influence, and he published a work more in the genre of social science in 1893 & 1894 about his thoughts and experiences in Sakhalin.
In 1892, Chekhov bought an estate at Melikhovo, where he went into organising relief for famine and disease for the peasants, and he offered medical assistance, though he himself suffered from tuberculosis. Many of Chekhov's playes and stories feature the character of the country doctor, and he wrote several of his more famous plays while at Melikhovo.
As his illness progressed, he was sent to a clinic, and in 1898 he bought land in Yalta on the Crimea to have a place for his recovery. Impatient with living in the country, he continued writing plays for the Moscow Art Theatre.
In 1901, he married Olga Knipper, who was an actress working with Constantin Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre. She continued working there while he stayed in Yalta.
He passed away in 1904.
*Dates added - 01.29.1860-06.15.1904 - are of the new style, but Russia didn't adopt that until 1918, so one will often encounter the dates 01.17.1860-07.02.1904.*
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Chekhov: The Four Major Plays: Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, Cherry Orchard
2 editions - first published in 2005 -
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends with Biographical Sketch
2 editions - first published in 2005 -
Sochineniya v dvukh tomakh
2 editions - first published in 1982 -
The gull: a new translation from the Russian
2 editions - first published in 1974 -
A.P. Chekhov o literature
2 editions - first published in 1955 -
Dear Writer, Dear Actress
2 editions - first published in 1998 -
Las tres hermanas: drama en cuatro actos original
2 editions - first published in 1973 -
The Notebooks
2 editions - first published in 1967 -
The complete plays
2 editions - first published in 2006 -
Uncle Vanya
2 editions - first published in 1988 -
Polnoe sobranie sochineniĭ i pisem
2 editions - first published in 1944 -
Pis'ma A.P. Chekhova
2 editions - first published in 1912 -
Collected Works
2 editions - first published in 1997 -
Die Möwe
2 editions - first published in 1973 -
That worthless fellow Platonov
2 editions - first published in 1930 -
La cerisaie
2 editions - first published in 1922 Read -
The Wedding: a scene in one act
2 editions - first published in 1996 -
Perepiska A.P. Chekhova i O.L. Knipper
2 editions - first published in 1934 -
Ten early plays
2 editions - first published in 1965 -
[Les moujiks
2 editions - first published in 1901 Read -
The notebooks of Anton Tchekov: together with reminiscences of Tchekhov by Maxin Gorky; translated by S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf.
2 editions - first published in 1967 -
Chekhov i teatr: pisʹma, felʹetony, sovremenniki o Chekhove-dramaturge.
2 editions - first published in 1961 -
Sobranie sochinenii
2 editions - first published in 1950 -
Chelovek v futli͡are: i drugie rasskazy
2 editions - first published in 1946 -
Novye pis'ma
2 editions - first published in 1922 Read -
Chekhov plays
2 editions - first published in 1969 -
The plays of Anton Chekov: nine plays including The seagull ... and others.
2 editions - first published in 1945 Borrow -
The Tales of Chekhov Volume 3
2 editions - first published in 2003 -
Best Plays by Chekhov: The sea gull ; Uncle Vanya ; The three sisters ; The cherry orchard
2 editions - first published in 1956 -
An béar: a joke in one act
2 editions - first published in 1967 -
The Tales of Chekhov Volume 4
2 editions - first published in 2003 -
The Tales of Chekhov Volume 8
2 editions - first published in 2003 -
Chekhov: the major plays
2 editions - first published in 1982 -
The Tales of Chekhov Volume 1
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The Tales of Chekhov Volume 5
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The brute
2 editions - first published in 1956 Borrow -
Cuentos Imprescindibles
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Three Sisters (Tcg Translations)
1 edition - first published in 1992 -
The Cherry Orchard (Cambridge Literature)
1 edition - first published in 1996 -
Unchanging Love
1 edition - first published in 1998 -
Poltorasta vërst: istorii︠a︡ odnogo puteshestvii︠a︡
1 edition - first published in 1998 -
The Proposal
1 edition - first published in 1989 -
Ionych: Vishnevyĭ sad.
1 edition - first published in 1957 -
Motʻxrobebi
1 edition - first published in 1944 -
The anniversary
1 edition - first published in 1992 -
Povesti i rasskazy: v trek︠h︡ tomak︠h︡.
1 edition - first published in 1959 -
Oncle Vania suivi de Les trois soeurs
1 edition - first published in 1960 -
Five major plays
1 edition - first published in 1982 -
Er und sie
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
The Proposal
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Chekhov's doctors: a collection of Chekhov's medical tales
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
Anton Chekhov's Notebooks
1 edition - first published in 2006 -
La Cigale et autres nouvelles
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Chajka. Dyadya Vanya. Tri sestry. Vishnevyj sad. Povesti i rasskazy (Knizhnaya polka)
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
Wybór opowiadań
1 edition - first published in 1977 -
V sumerkakh: ocherki i rasskazy
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
Dom s mezoninom
1 edition - first published in 1973 -
La Estepa En El Barranco (Clasica)
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Arbaʻah maḥazot ..
1 edition - first published in 1969 -
Odnoaktnye pésy, inst͡s︡enirovki i rasshazy
1 edition - first published in 1954 -
The Oxford Chekhov: Volume 2: Platonov; Ivanov; The Seagull
1 edition - first published in 1967 -
Višnevyj sad Der Kirschgarten: Komödie in 4 Aufzügen
1 edition - first published in 1918 -
Dreizehn lustige Erzählungen. Zweisprachige Ausgabe. Russisch / Deutsch
1 edition - first published in 1992 -
Anton Chekhov's The sea gull: a comedy in four acts.
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
Kanitelʹ: rasskazy.
1 edition - first published in 1964 -
Zapisnȳe knizhki A.P. Chekhova
1 edition - first published in 1927 -
Zhiteĭskai︠a︡ melochʹ: ocherki i razskazy.
1 edition - first published in 1920 -
Chernyĭ monakh: razskazy i povi︠e︡sti.
1 edition - first published in 1920 -
Kaschtanka
1 edition - first published in 1998 -
Great Works of Anton Chekhov
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Nueve Cuentos Sin Final Feliz
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Selected Works
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Five Major Plays By Anton Chekhov
1 edition - first published in 1982 -
Ein unbedeutender Mensch. Erzählungen 1883 - 1885
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
The Cherry Orchard
1 edition - first published in 1990 -
Dramy i komedii
1 edition - first published in 1920 -
The Kentucy Marriage Proposal
1 edition - first published in 1998 -
The cherry orchard
1 edition - first published in 2010 -
Die Dame mit dem Hündchen. Späte Erzählungen 1893 - 1903
1 edition - first published in 1988 -
Rasskazy povesti
1 edition - first published in 1976 -
Historia de Un Contrabajo - Cyc -
1 edition - first published in 1994 -
Cuentos Imprescindibles (Clasicos)
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
The Personal Papers Of Anton Chekov
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
Nine plays of Chekhov: the sea gull, The cherry orchard, The three sisters and others.
1 edition - first published in 1946 -
The Parasol
1 edition - first published in 1987 -
Bozkir
1 edition - first published in 1985 -
Meistererzählungen
1 edition - first published in 1960 -
Iz Sibiri: putevye ocherki i pisʹma
1 edition - first published in 1946 -
Namunedāra goshṭī
1 edition - first published in 1940 -
Meisternovellen
1 edition - first published in 1996 -
Teatro: La gaviota, El tío Vania, Las tres hermanas, El jardín de los cerezos.
1 edition - first published in 1946 -
L'homme de bois
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
Dramen
1 edition - first published in 1969 -
Kirsikkapuisto ja kuusi novellia
1 edition - first published in 1965 -
Three sisters
1 edition - first published in 2010 -
Perepiska A.P. Chekhova v dvukh tomakh
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
Do ḍrāme: Caik̲h̲ūf ke do mashhūr mat̤āʼibāt
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Uncle Vanya
1 edition - first published in 2005 -
Pov©±i©Ơesti i razskazy
1 edition - first published in 1900 Read -
The SEAGULL (MSE)
1 edition - first published in 2002
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Alternative names
- Чехов Антон Павлович
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
- Anton Chekhov
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH, 1860-1904.
- Anton, Chekhov
- Anton Chekhov (Tchekhov)
- Anton Pavlovich, Chekhov
- ANTON CHEKHOV
- Anton P. Chekhov
- Anton CHEKHOV
- CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLIVICH, 1860-1904.
- A. P. Chekhov
- A.P. Chekhov
- Anton Chekov
- A. Chekhov
- Chekhov A.
- A.P Chekhov
- Chekhov
- Anthon Chekhov
- Chekhov A
- A P Chekhov
- Anton Pavlovitch Tchekhov
- Anton Tchekhov
- Anton Checkov
- Anton Pavlovich Chekov
- Anton Pavlovich Cheukov
- Anton Pavlovich Chejov
- Anton Cechov
- Anton; Dowsett, Charles (translated by) Chekhov
- Anton Chekhoff
- Anton Chekhov; Translation From The Russian Kathleen Cook
- Anton Chekhov; Translator Elisaveta Fen
- Anton Chekov; Introduction By John Gielgud And Illustrations By Lajos Sza
- Anton Chekhov; Translation From The Russian Ivy Litvinov; Texts Sergeo
- Anton Chéjov
- Anton Pavlovitch Chekov
- Anton Chejov
- Anton Tschechow
- Anton Tchekoff
- Tchekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.
- Tchekhov,Anton Pavlovitch
- Anton Pavlovich Tchekhov
- Anton Tchekov
- Anton Cehov
- Anton Tsjechof
- A. CHEKHOV
- Auton Chekhov
- A. P. ^Ce^hov
- A. P. Chekov
- Chekhov,Anton チェーホフ,アントン (1860-1904)
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