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Anton Chekhov was born
Anton Chekhov was born on January 29, 1860, in Taganrog, Russia. -
Chekhov's parents
He was the third of six children of Pavel Chekhov, a grocery store owner. Chekhov and his brothers and sisters worked in the family store and studied in the local school. -
Bussiness failed
Chekhov's father business failed so his family moved to Moscow for a fresh start. -
Education
Chekhov entered to the medical school of Moscow University. After graduating he worked at the hospital at Chikino, Russia. -
Earning more money
When graduating as a doctor, his father could barely maintain huis family. Anton had great responsibilities to support his family. So he freelance as a journalist and writer of comic sketches. -
New Book
Chekhov's first book published by someone else, Motley Stories, came out with his real name on it. The book did well, and Chekhov was recognized as a new talent. He began practicing medicine less and writing more. -
Honor
Chekhov was elected to the Literary Fund, an honor given only to prominent authors. -
The Steppe
"The Steppe" is about the story of the Russian countryside revolving around the adventures of nine-year-old Egorushka while on his way to a distant town with his uncle which began a new phase in Chekhov's writing career. -
Rejected Play
He wrote some one-act plays and worked on The Wood Demon, but the St. Petersburg (Russia) Theatrical Committee rejected the play and it deeply wounding him. -
Play
The play Ivanov is about a Russian landowner who is deep in debt and self-doubt. He has fallen out of love with his ailing Jewish wife and he is overwhelmed by feelings that he cannot extricate himself from a life gone terribly wrong. -
Tragic!?
Chekhov also wrote several profoundly tragic studies at that time, the most notable of which was “A Dreary Story” is about a dying professor of medicine charting his own decline. -
Book
Chekov seventh book, a collection of stories entitled Gloomy People, appeared. -
New insirpation
Chekhov set out for the prison colony on the Siberian island of Sakhalin. After spending three months studying the island. He returned home and wrote Sakhalin Island, which was later published in serial form. -
Story
Ward Number Six is about an elderly doctor shows himself nonresistant to evil by refraining from remedying the appalling conditions in the mental ward of which he has charge—only to be incarcerated as a patient himself through the intrigues of a subordinate. -
New Job!?
He was supporting his family comfortably. He began writing more slowly and focusing more on writing plays than before; his stories continued to appear in the leading St. Petersburg and Moscow magazines. -
Wood Demon returns
Chekhov's other great plays followed quickly: a new version of The Wood Demon, in 1897; Three Sisters in 1900–01; and The Cherry Orchard in 1903–04. They are all about the passing of the old order. In each, a group of upper-class landowners struggles to preserve their cultural values against the social change insisted on by the middle-and lower-class teachers, writers, and businessmen to whom the new life belongs -
Engaged/Lover
He had a number of pretty, lively, and talented women friends, but none whom he felt strongly enough about to propose marriage. But when he was thirty-eight and seriously ill, he met the actress Olga Knipper. -
Married
He and Olga Knipper got married -
Died (cause illness)
Chekhov died of tuberculosis on July 15, 1904, in Badenweiler, Germany. He died in a hotel at Badenweiler. His body was returned to Moscow for burial. -
Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival
He won it for the play Old Cherry Orchard -
Audie Award for Short Stories/Collections
for his collection of writing short stories. -
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