Anton Chekhov

Born: January 29, 1860 - Died: July 15, 1904 (44 years)

Taganrog, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was a Russian playwright and writer, whose plays received international acclaim, and who as a short-story writer is still regarded as virtually unmatched. 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." The son of a former serf, Chekhov started out supporting his family by writing popular comic sketches as a medicine student. While practicing as a doctor, he produced his first full-length play, Ivanov (1887). He took up serious themes with stories such as “The Steppe” (1888) and “A Dreary Story” (1889); later stories include “Ward Number Six” (1892), “The Black Monk” (1894) and “The Lady with the Dog” (1899). His play The Seagull (1896) was badly received until its successful revival in 1899 by Konstantin Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre. After this he converted his earlier work The Wood Demon (1889) into the universally acclaimed play Uncle Vanya (1897). To nurse his eventually fatal tuberculosis he moved to the Crimea, where he wrote his famous last plays, Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904).

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Anton Chekhov

My Husband

Affair of honnor

You're The Boss!

The Cherry Orchard

Racek

The Cherry Orchard

The Seagull

A Joke

National Theatre Live: Vanya

The Student

Il Giardino Dei Ciliegi (Leonardo Lidi)

The Seagull

Zio Vanja

National Theatre Live: The Seagull

The Black Monk

The Cherry Orchard

The seagull - the movie

The seagull

An Evening's Trail

Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard

Sonata

Crise de nerfs

La tragedia è finita, Platonov

Atti unici

Uncle Vanya

Wrecker

The Vanishing Field

The Cherry Orchard

The End of the Season

National Theatre Live: Three Sisters

To Stumble

Uncle Vanya

Onkel Wanja

The Cherry Orchard

The Seagull

After Anyuta

Three Sisters

The Seagull

Joker

National Theatre Live: The Seagull

Platonow

Agafia

Le Rustre et le Juge

Three Sisters

The Diary of an Old Man

Still Alice

Ottaal

Days and Nights

FUGAKU 2 / The SEAGULL The Shots

It Can Pass Through the Wall

The Aftermath of the Inauguration of the Public Toilet at Kilometer 375

The Heavenly Wanderers

Hollywood Seagull

La Mouette

Taper

The Little Theater

La Douce

National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard

Ivanov

Anton Chekhov's The Duel

Backstage Story

Ward No. 6

The Orchard

Uncle Vanya

Afternoon

Seagull

About Love

Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her

The Seagull

The Sisters

Ragin

About Love

Fear

Little Lili

Three Sisters

Three Sisters

Chekhovian Motifs

Upheaval