Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (pseudonym – Antosha Chekhonte) was born in the Russian seaport city of Taganrog on the 17th of January 1860. His father, Pavel Egorovich Chekhov, was a grocery store owner, and mother, Eugenia Yakovlevna, devoted all her life to the family and their 6 children. In young years Anton with his brothers and sisters worked in the father’s store after school, but after their father’s business had failed, the family had to move to Moscow.
In 1889 Anton wrote A Dreary Story, a collection of short stories called Children, The Wood Demon play that was rejected by the Theatrical Committee in St. Petersburg which wounded the author a lot. In 1890 Chekhov released another collection of short stories called Gloomy People and later – a work called Sakhalin Island that was inspired by his visit to Sakhalin.
Apart from writing short stories Chekhov also released a number of successful plays, such as, for instance, The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, a new version of The Wood Demon, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard…
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a philatelist and for a long time had been collecting stamps. In his collection there were stamps of many countries of the world. Including Russia, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Finland, Britain, Greece, Japan, the United States, Belgium, Italy and Sweden.
In 1898, after Chekhov had fallen ill seriously with tuberculosis, he met the actress Olga Knipper and in 1900 they got married. In 1904 his health got worse and he was taken to hospital. In June of the same year he left for Germany where he died on the 2nd of July 1904. His body was returned to Moscow and buried there.
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