Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (January 29, 1860 - July 14/15, 1904) was a doctor and writer.
He was born in Taganrog[?], Russia.
He qualified as a doctor in 1884 although he rarely practised. After a successful production of The Seagull by the Moscow Art Theatre, he wrote three more plays for the same company: Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. In 1901 he married Olga Leonardovna Knipper (1870-1959), an actress who performed in his plays.
Chekhov is one of the few Russian dramatists whose works are well known in western Europe. His plays commonly feature the struggle of a sensitive individual to maintain his integrity against the temptations of worldly success. A recurring theme is the pointlessness of radical, human/mechanical change, versus the powerful inertia of slow natural/organic cycles.
He died in Badenweiler, Germany of tuberculosis and is now buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.
- A Journey to Sakhalin (1895), including:
- Saghalien [or Sakhalin] Island (1891-1895)
- Across Siberia
- Letters
Many of these were written under the pseudonym "Antosha Chekhonte".
- Intrigues (1879-1884) - nine stories
- Late-Blooming Flowers (1882)
- The Swedish Match (1883)
- Lights (1883-1888)
- Oysters (1884)
- Perpetuum Mobile (1884)
- Motley Stories (Pëstrye Rasskazy) (1886)
- Excellent People (1886)
- Misery (1886)
- The Princess (1886)
- The Scholmaster (1886)
- A Work of Art (1886)
- Hydrophobia (1886-1901)
- The Beggar (1887)
- The Doctor (1887)
- Enemies (1887)
- The Examining Magistrate (1887)
- Happiness (1887)
- The Kiss (1887)
- On Easter Eve (1887)
- Typhus (1887)
- Volodya (1887)
- The Steppe (1888) - won the Pushkin Prize
- An Attack of Nerves (1888)
- An Awkward Business (1888)
- The Beauties (1888)
- The Swan Song (1888)
- Sleepy (1888)
- The Name-Day Party (1888)
- A Boring Story (1889)
- Gusev (1890)
- The Horse Stealers (1890)
- The Duel (1891)
- Peasant Wives (1891)
- Ward No 6 (1892)
- In Exile (1892)
- The Grasshopper (1892)
- Neighbours (1892)
- Terror (1892)
- My Wife (1892)
- The Butterfly (1892)
- The Two Volodyas (1893)
- An Anonymous Story (1893)
- The Black Monk (1894)
- The Head Gardener's Story (1894)
- Rothschild's Fiddle (1894)
- The Student (1894)
- The Teacher of Literature (1894)
- A Woman's Kingdom (1894)
- Three Years (1895)
- Ariadne (1895)
- Murder (1895)
- The House with an Attic (1896)
- My Life (1896)
- At Home (1897)
- Peasants (1897)
- In the Cart (1897)
- The Man in a Case, Gooseberries, About Love - the 'Little Trilogy' (1898)
- Ionych (1898)
- A Doctor's Visit (1898)
- The New Villa (1898)
- On Official Business (1898)
- The Darling (1899)
- The Lady with the Dog (1899)
- At Christmas (1899)
- In the Ravine (1900)
- The Bishop (1902)
- Betrothed or A Marriageable Girl (1903)
e-texts of some of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's works: