Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian dramatist and short-story writer. The son of a grocer, Chekhov helped to support his family by publishing humorous articles while studying medicine in Moscow. His writing later
became more serious and he began to write short stories for literary journals. He practised medicine until 1898, when he moved to Yalta, hoping the climate would relieve his tuberculosis. There he wrote his
great plays, including The Seagull (1896) revised (1904), Three Sisters (1901), and The Cherry Orchard (1904).
