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Anton Pavlovich Checkhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the small seaport of Taganrog, Ukraine on January 17th in the year 1860. Today he is remembered as a playwright and one of the masters of the modern short story.

His first story appeared in a Moscow paper in 1880, and after some difficulty he secured a position connected with several of the smaller periodicals, for which, during his student years, he poured forth a succession of short stories and sketches of Russian life with incredible rapidity. He wrote, he tells us, during every spare minute, in crowded rooms where there was "no light and less air," and never spent more than a day on any one story. He also wrote at this time a very stirring blood-and-thunder play which was suppressed by the censor, and the fate of which is not known.

PLAYS: "The Swan Song". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1889 "The Proposal". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1889 "Ivanoff". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1889 "The Boor". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1890 "The Sea-Gull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1896  "The Tragedian in Spite of Himself" . . . . . . . 1899  "The Three Sisters" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1901  "Uncle Vanya" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1902  "The Cherry Orchard" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1904

NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES: "Humorous Folk". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1887 "Twilight and Other Stories". . . . . . . . . . . . 1887 "Morose Folk". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1890 "Variegated Tales". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1894 "Old Wives of Russia". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1894 "The Duel". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1895 "The Chestnut Tree". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1895 "Ward Number Six". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1897

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