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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

1860 - 1904.

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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Subjects
Accessible book, Fiction, Translations into English, Protected DAISY, Children's fiction, Social life and customs, Short stories, Classic Literature, short story, Horror stories, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Detective and mystery stories, Drama, Juvenile fiction, death, short stories, Russian Short stories, Criticism and interpretation, American literature, Crime, Juvenile audience, Mentally ill women, Young men, allegory, change
Places
Russia, Jefferson, Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County, New England, Massachusetts, Salem Village, New York, Wall Street, Ireland, Araby, North Richmond Street, Araby bazaar, England, Mallard residence, Alabama, Galway, Owl Creek Bridge, United States, London, Justice of the Peace Court, Dublin, India, Calcutta, Louisiana
People
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Colonel Sartoris, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Tobe, Emily Grierson, Devil, Faith Brown, Goodman Brown, Goody Cloyse, Bartleby, Cicero, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Nippers, Turkey, John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Mangan's sister, Brently Mallard, Fortunato, Josephine, Lady Fortunato, Louise Mallard, Luchresi
Time
19th century, Antebellum era, 1600s, 1861-65, Carnival, 20th century, 1890, 1861-1865, American Civil War, Civil War, 1888, 1801-1917, 1912, 1975, 19e siècle, 2015, 20e siecle, 20e siècle, Ivy Day, Siglo XIX, carnival

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