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Growing up Anton had five siblings He had four Brothers and one sister. Their names from youngest to oldest were
* Mikhail Chehov (1865)
* Maria Chekhova (1863)
* Ivan Chekhov (1861)
* Nikolai Chekhov (1858)
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Chekhov grew up in the town of Taganrog to Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov and Yevgeniya Chekhov. He was the third of six living children and he was the victim of consistent physical abuse from his father. When he was living with his famil his father made him work in his business and eventually failed leading the family to go bankrupt causing them to move to Moscow to start their new life. When they moved to Moscow they left Anton alone for 3 years so he can finish pursuing his education. -
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Anton Chekov was a Russian playwright that was born on January 29, 1860, and died of Tuberculosis on July 1904. Chekhov helped with bringing modernism to theatre by creating more realistic plays that match how life is truly is without the monologues. He did this by adding more dialog that you would hear normal people speak. He also added more actions that humans do like eating making small talk and things of that nature.
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Anton went to the Taganrog Gymnasium and Greek School in Taganrog when he was younger. In 1884 Anton finish his schooling at Moscow State University. He then practice medicine becoming the main provider for his family.
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Anton won the Pushkin Prize which was awarded to him because of his collection of short stories At Dusk. The award is only given by the Russian Academy of Sciences to Russian authors who achieved the highest standard of literary excellence. -
Anton Chekhov lived in Sakhalin in 1890 to document his findings on pneumonia and how it was affecting prisoners in that area. He lived in Sakhalin for a couple of months then moved to Melikhovo where he would write a couple of shorties and where the inspiration for the theme of Peasants a novel Anton wrote came to be.
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His parents were the biggest influence on his writing. His father was a symbol of hypocrisy in his writing and his mother helped kindle the flame of a storyteller in Anton.
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Pyotr Sorin, his sister Irina Arkadina, her lover Boris Trigorin, her son KonstantinTreplev and his love interest Nina Zarechnaya gather at Pyotr's estate. Later they all go around the estate and then have an argument causing everyone to leave except Nina. Konstantin came to Nina with a dead gull as an act of love. Nina then proclaims her love to Boris. That relationship doesn't last and two years later she returns to Konstantin and compares herself to the gull he gave her. -
Chekov was diagnosed with tuberculosis which is caused by a bacteria that enters the lungs that can spread throughout the body. If not treated right could be fatal. It can cause a cough that results in coughing up blood, fever, chest pain, and more. He would soon succumb to his illness in 1904 at Badenweiler, Germany.
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Anton Chekhov married Olga Knipper in 1901 -
After suffering a lung hemorrhage caused by tuberculosis he sold his Melikhovo estate to build a villa in Yalta. There he wrote the play Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. This is where he meets Olga Knipper later marrying her in 1901. This was Anton's last home and he lived here for 5 years later dying at the age of 44 due to tuberculosis.
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He died not having children with Olga. According to public records, there is no child except a child that had to be aborted. There is not known reason why Anton didn't have any children.
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Lyuba Ranevskaya is forced to come back to her old family estate that is being sold off to pay off old family debts. After some time Ranevskaya along with her daughter are outside and a drunken homeless man comes by and asks for money. Ranevskaya gives him all of their money leaving them penniless. The night of the auction comes and the estate is bought by a man that is planning on cutting down the cherry trees to build a house there to rent. As Ranevskaya she leaves her old life behind. -
Playwright Tennessee Williams takes heavy inspiration from Anton Chekhov. Those plays are A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie. He also took inspiration from Anton's novella My Life to create his novella, The Vine. Williams saw in Chekhov an ability to truly understand and portray human nature through his revolutionary drama and wanted to emulate that unique talent. -
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