Chekhov’s mother, Yevgenia Yakovlevna Chekhova (née Morozova), also came from a former ancestral farming family. His father, Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov, was the son of a former agrarian farmer from the Voronezh Province, and ran a small cheap goods shop in Taganrog as a merchant. xiv (1878) Youth and EducationĪnton Chekhov was born on 29 January 1860 in the southern Russian port city of Taganrog on the Azov Sea. Anton Chekov, Fatherlessness or Platonov, Act I, sc. “When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.” Chekhov was working as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: “ Medicine is my lawful wife“, he once said, “ and literature is my mistress.” His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekov is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. On July 15, 1904, Russian playwright and short-story writer Anton Chekov passed away.
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