Anton Chekhov Biography

Through the stories such as "The Lady with the Dog" and "The Steppe" and also the plays such as Uncle Vanya and The Seagull, Anton Chekhov has emphasized the hidden significance of everyday events, the human nature depths and the fine line between the zoners comedy and tragedy. This is the Anton Pavlovich Chekhov biography for the question of who was Anton Chekhov. Let us look at more about Anton Chekhov biography in detail.

Anton Early Writing Career

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Birth and Early Years

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's birthdate was Jan 29, 1860, in Taganrog. It is in Russia. Pavel, his father, was a grocer who had regular financial difficulties. His mother, named Yevgeniya, shared her storytelling love with Chekhov and his five siblings.

When Pavel's business failed in 1875, he relocated his family to Moscow in search of work, while Chekhov remained in Taganrog to complete his education. In 1879, Chekhov returned to Moscow with his family and enrolled in a medical school. Despite this, because his father was struggling financially, he supported the family through freelance writing, generating small humorous pieces in the hundreds of count under a pen, which is the name for local magazines. Chekhov earned the highest marks throughout his school. This performance earned him a scholarship and acceptance of his seat at I.M. In the year 1879, Sechenov founded the First Moscow State Medical University. He became a physician in 1884 and treated many patients for free, preferring to support himself financially through his writing.

This is Anton Chekhov short biography on his youth and education.

Career

To start with, Anton Chekhov, in the year 1887, took a trip to Ukraine and has moved by the steppe. And, he wrote a full-length novel in the name of "The Steppe," which was published in Severny Vestnik. In the same year's autumn, theatre management hired Chekhov on a commission basis to assist him in creating a play for his theatre.

That is when Chekhov wrote Ivanov, where it was produced in the same year - November. The play stood hit and came to be known as an original work. However, the take of Chekhov on the writing experience the play was 'sickening.' in a letter to his brother named Alexander, he defined the production as a comic incident.

In the year 1888, having little influence of Grogorovich, Chekhov has published his anthology At Dusk. That earned him the prestigious Pushkin Prize for the best literary output of high creative value. The death of his brother Nicholay, in 1889, struck him rather too painfully, under the influence of, in the Sep of the same year he published A Dreary Story. The next years he spent venturing around Russia for his medical purposes.

Around a decade down the line, Chekhov wrote another play in 1895 named "The Seagull," followed by Uncle Vanya (1897), The Three Sisters (1900), and The Cherry Orchard (1903). All these plays served him as a "revolutionary backbone," with an effort to recreate and express the "realism."

The plays depicted and pondered "how people act and speak authentically themselves, translating it to the stage to exhibit the human condition as accurately as possible in the aim of making the audience reflect on their definition - what it means to be human."

Chekhov's Four Major Plays

"The Seagull" is the first of Chekhov's four main plays, and it was written in 1895 and originally performed in 1896. The story revolves around four more important characters - Boris Trigorin- a famous story writer, the ingenue Nina, Irina Arkadina - a fading actress, with her son - Konstantin Treplev, the symbolism playwright. The same play stood apart from the 19th-century mainstream theatre. For the sake of the audience, it avoided the lurid actions.

It indirectly spoke with the issues and the dialogues were full of subtext. It was a failure initially at the theatres. And later, when it was produced in the Moscow Art Theatre, which is directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, which was a triumph. It became one of the greatest events eventually in the history of Russian theatre. It is also one of the greatest new developments in world drama history.

The second play of Chekhov - Uncle Vanya. It was published in 1898 and produced in 1899. Professor Serebryakov is shown with his second wife, Yelena, a gorgeous and considerably younger woman. To their rural estate, they pay a visit, which was their income source. The two estate's caretakers were Vanya, the brother of the professor's first late wife and the estate's manager, and also Dr. Astrov, who is a local doctor.

The two men are captivated by the spell of Yelena. Sonya, the daughter's professor from his first wife, had been working in the estate matters with Vanya and was inclined towards Dr. Astrov. She also deals with her unreciprocated love for him. Serebryakov plans to sell Vanya's estate and Sonya's home in order to make better investments that would yield a bigger return for himself and his young wife.

For Sonya, this discussion of her father makes things worse. The play was produced by the Moscow Art Theatre and is directed by Konstantin Stanislavski.

The "Three Sisters" was released in the year 1900. It has depicted the lives of the Prozorov sisters, named - Olga, Masha, and Irina. Olga is the oldest one and a schoolteacher by profession, Masha the middle one, is an idle woman spending her days reading, coaching and lazing around. She holds no interest in her husband, who is a simple Latin teacher named Kulygin.

Irina is the youngest of all, where the first scene opens on her name day. The play explores the human beings' disappointments, specifically if one, coming from the city, is trapped in country life. Also, it was produced in 1901 by Moscow Art Theatre and was directed by Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko and Konstantin Stanislavski. This play was widely reproduced and was considered to be great works of dramatic literature.

The Cherry Orchard is the fourth and last play, which was written by Chekhov in 1903 and was produced in 1904.

This is about an aristocratic landowner named Madame Ranevsky, who returns to her family estate before its auction. And, the estate includes a large and -known cherry named orchard. Along with her two daughters, she had fled to France after her husband's death. Now, she returned after her lover robbed and has abandoned her.

In her absence, she had accrued debts and her purpose for her return was to pay the mortgage. She also allows its sale to a former's son, serf. The play represents the aristocracy decline, the liberation of the serfs in Russia, and the rise of the dramatizes and middle class, the economic and social situations of the mid-19th century.

Death

He was badly and utterly ill with tuberculosis in May 1904, and everybody who saw him, as his brother Mikhail put it, knew he was on the verge of death. Towards the June beginning, with his wife Olga, he went to Germany. He wrote cheerful letters from there to his family in Moscow to assure them that he was slowly getting better. On Jul 15 (the same year), Anton Chekhov passed away. 

Chekhov worked as a physician throughout the mid-1880s, and he began to produce serious works of fiction under his own name. His pieces have appeared in the newspaper, which is the "New Times." After that, as part of collections such as Motley Stories (in 1886). His story, named "The Steppe," was a very important success, earning its author named the Pushkin Prize in the year 1888. It, like most of Chekhov's early works, reflected the influence of 19th-century Russian realists such as Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy.