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Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer. Widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time, his career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
science · Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904) · physician · novelist · journalist · writer · prose writer · satirist · playwright · short story writer · film screenwriter · librettist · also Anton Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Antón Pávlovič Čéhov, Antón Pávlovich Chékhov, Chekhov
Born 17 January 1860 · Died 2 July 1904 · Q5685
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Remember that writers whom we call great or just good and who make us drunk, have one common, very important feature: they are going somewhere and calling you with them, and you feel not with your mind, but your whole being, that they have a goal, like the ghost of Hamlet
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are like horse-flies which prevent the horse from ploughing. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double bass and a fly settles on its flanks and tickles and buzzes... he has to twitch his skin and swish his tail. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim:
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“Remember that writers whom we call great or just good and who make us drunk, have one common, very important feature: they are going somewhere and calling you with them, and you feel not with your mind, but your whole being, that they have a goal, like the ghost of Hamlet”
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“s almost a novella and is, in my opinion, his greatest. In it you will find all the key Chekhovian tropes: the black humour, the candid depiction of the absurdity of life, its fleeting happiness, its”
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“Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.”
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“the main cog had jumped out of the Melikhovo machine”
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“are like horse-flies which prevent the horse from ploughing. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double bass and a fly settles on its flanks and tickles and buzzes... he has to twitch his skin and swish his tail. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim:”
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“D Drink: untypically for a Russian of his era, Chekhov was not a heavy drinker. His elder brothers Kolia and Aleksandr were chronic alcoholics and perhaps the memory of the squalor of Kolia”
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“Crutch is coming! Crutch! The old horseradish.”
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“Yes, that's how it is, child. He who works, he who is patient is the superior.”
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“Ho-ho-ho! This is a fine daughter-in-law for you too! Everything is in its place in her; all runs smoothly, no creaking, the mechanism works well, lots of screws in it.”
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“and if any of our dear ones die, it must be because it is the will of God, so we ought have fortitude and bear it submissively.”
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“Comparing Chekhov to Tolstoy, Vladimir Nabokov wrote,”
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Mshale: The Bet By Anton Chekhov : Summary || Class 12 || Semester 3 || Animated Story In Bengali Mckenna Nhl (Oy4EpkEynt)
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The Indian Express: Citing Anton Chekhov on life imprisonment, Delhi High Court releases 2 convicts
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The Herald: This is a remarkable new interpretation of Anton Chekhov’s famous work
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SSBCrack: New Production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard Opens at Harold Pinter Theatre
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Texas Public Radio | TPR: The Classic Theatre tackles Anton Chekhov's 'The Seagull'
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Yahoo: Commentary: How Anton Chekhov became the playwright of the moment
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YourTango: 4 Short Love Stories By Anton Chekhov + His Most Romantic Quotes
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Indiatimes: Russian author Anton Chekhov's birth anniversary today
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scmp.com: Six degrees of separation from Anton Chekhov
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The Guardian: Anton Chekhov: a lifetime of lovers
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The Wellcome Trust-funded play 'A Russian Doctor', performed by Andrew Dawson and researched by Professor Jonathan Cole, explored Chekhov's experiences on Sakhalin Island
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Variety: Anton Chekhov’s The Duel
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The Guardian: A leaky roof and backstage drama at Chekhov's White Dacha
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The playwright Tennessee Williams adapted The Seagull as The Notebook of Trigorin
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Olga wrote this account of her husband's last moments:
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Died 1904-07-02.
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“Não me diga que a Lua está brilhando; mostre-me o seu reflexo num caco de vidro.”
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“A man and woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.”
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“Jak się nie ma prawdziwego życia, żyje się mirażami.”
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“Se você tem medo da solidão, não se case.”
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“O amor mostra ao homem como ele deveria ser sempre.”
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“Kogo interesuje moje czy twoje życie? Ludziom musisz dawać ludzi, a nie siebie samego.”
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“Opis: ktoś obawiający się zmian.”
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“Kto ma świadomość winy, zawsze szuka usprawiedliwienia w okolicznościach zewnętrznych.”
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Olga suffered a miscarriage; and Donald Rayfield has offered evidence, based on the couple's letters, that conception occurred when Chekhov and Olga were apart, although other Russian scholars have rejected that claim
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Won Medal for works on the first general census.
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Awarded Honorary Citizen of the Russian Empire.
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Awarded Order of Saint Stanislaus.
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Awarded Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd class.
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Studied at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University.
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Studied at MSU Faculty.
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Chekhov bought a plot of land on the outskirts of Yalta and built a villa (The White Dacha), into which he moved with his mother and sister the following year
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But the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard
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Chekhov began writing his play The Seagull in a lodge he had built in the orchard at Melikhovo
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And 1894 as Ostrov Sakhalin (The Island of Sakhalin), a work of social science, not literature
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Chekhov undertook an arduous journey by train, horse-drawn carriage, and river steamer across Siberia to the Russian Far East and the katorga (penal colony) on Sakhalin Island, north of Japan
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Influenced A Dreary Story, finished that September, about a man who confronts the end of a life that he realises has been without purpose
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Awarded Pushkin Prize (1888).
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With a little string-pulling by Grigorovich, the short story collection At Dusk (V Sumerkakh) won Chekhov the coveted Pushkin Prize "for the best literary production distinguished by high artistic worth
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Exhausted from overwork and ill health, Chekhov took a trip to Ukraine, which reawakened him to the beauty of the steppe
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Was invited to write for one of the most popular papers in St
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Studied at Medical faculty of Moscow University, Doctor of Medicine (1879–1884).
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Chekhov qualified as a physician, which he considered his principal profession though he made little money from it and treated the poor free of charge
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And 1885, Chekhov found himself coughing blood, and in 1886 the attacks worsened, but he would not admit his tuberculosis to his family or his friends
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Chekhov completed his schooling in Taganrog and moved in with his family in Moscow, having gained admission to the medical school at I
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Studied at Chekhov Gymnasium (1868–1876).
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Chekhov's father Pavel was declared bankrupt after overextending his finances building a new house, having been cheated by a contractor named Mironov
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Born 1860-01-17.
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“s children. Letter to writer Maria Kiseleva (Juny 1886) When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating. Letter to M.V. Kiseleva (September 29, 1886) To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards. Letter to N.A. Leikin (December 24, 1886) I”
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