About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Anton Chekhov, List of people from Taganrog, Adolph Brodsky, Alexandre Koyre, Faina Ranevskaya, Valentin Parnakh, Iosif Prut, Boris Podolsky, William Frederick Yeames, Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya, Natalia Duritskaya, Ivan Perestiani, Victor Dyomin, Leonid Gobyato, Victor Bregeda, Sergey Zvantsev, Konstantin Savitsky, Maria Smith-Falkner, Sophia Parnok, Kuzma Galitsky, Nadezhda Sigida, Igor Sklyarov, Anatoli Tishchenko, Yuliya Yefimova, Nikolai Dobrynin, Marianna Tavrog, Dmitriy Shevchenko, Aleksandr Leonidovich Vishnevsky, Sokrates Starynkiewicz, Viktor Pugachyov, Ivan Golubets, Vasily Zolotarev, Georgy Sergeev, Yevgeny Shapovalov, Maria Chekhova, Pavel Derevyanko, Mikhail Tanich, Fyodor Dobronravov, Mikhail Mesheryakov, Witold Rowicki, Alexander Lakier, Dmitry Girs, Nadezhda Belonenko, Maksim Mishenko, Osip Notovich, Dmitri Sinodi-Popov, Zinovy Vysokovsky, Vatslav Mikhalsky, Victor Litvinov, Semyon Morozov, Isaac Yakovlevich Pavlovsky, Aleksandr Borisovich Savin, Eugeniusz ytomirski. Excerpt: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: , pronounced; 29 January 1860 - 15 July 1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress." Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Uncle Vanya and premiered Chekhov's last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challen...
