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Anton Chekhov


Born
in Taganrog, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire
January 29, 1860

Died
July 15, 1904

Genre
Classics, Fiction, Humor and Comedy

Influences
Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Henrik Ibsen, Leo Tolstoy, Honoré de Bal ...more


Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.

Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.

"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 ...more

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The Cherry Orchard
3.68 avg rating — 42,878 ratings — published 1903 — 388 editions
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“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov
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“Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
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“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
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