Chekhov

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Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright who was born in Taganrog, Russia on January 29th 1860 and died in Germany on July 15th 1904. He is known as the leading playwright of the late 19th century. 

In his early years, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov had to support his money-troubled family by writing short comics for magazines. He had actually first trained as a physician and he would produce small pieces of fiction that ended up in the local newspapers. 

In 1884 he was qualified as a doctor and he began practising in Moscow. Slowly but surely, he begins to see better opportunities in the writing profession and in 1888 he started to publish his very own stories and create small pieces of theatre, like "The Wood Demon" (1889).

Chekhov then started to help the world in his own way by travelling to Sakhalin to interview prisoners and exiles, moving to Melikhovo to doctor the peasants and he helped on the first of three schools that were being built there for the children. 

Much of his greatest work was produced in the 1890's and he went to the Moscow Art Theatre company to collaborate with Konstantin Stanislavsky. Together they created his four masterpieces: "Uncle Vanya" (1897), "The Cherry Orchard" (1904), "The Three Sisters" (1901), and of course, "The Seagull" (1895).

In his later life he married an actress from the Moscow Art Theatre called Olga Knipper, but unfortunately, he died at the age of 44 from his tuberculosis he had been suffering from since he was young, he had two heart attacks and passed away in his hotel bedroom.

*Source - Jessica Murphy and Bloomsbury Chekhov Plays*