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2020-08-20
Anton Checkov was a Russian short-story writer and playwright who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.
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Anton Chekhov was born in Russia in 1860 to a religious but violent father and a loving but very unhappy mother. He had a difficult childhood but went on to become a doctor, paying for his studies himself by doing part-time work. All his life, Chekhov, one of the best-known writers of short stories in any language, thought of himself, first and foremost, as a doctor.
Chekhov’s plays were never as successful in his lifetime as his short stories, although they are now seen as the first examples of modern drama. In fact, people hated his first play. Even on his deathbed, Chekhov believed his stories would last only seven years after his death. He passed away at the age of forty-four of tuberculosis.