Anton Pavlovich Chekhov[a] (/ ˈtʃɛkɒf /; Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов; [b] 29 January [O.S. 17 January] 1860 – 15 July [O.S. 2 July] 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer.
Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and master of the modern short story. He described the Russian life of his time using a deceptively simple technique devoid of obtrusive literary devices, and he is regarded as the outstanding representative of the late 19th-century Russian realist school.
Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright, short story writer, and physician. Renowned for his unparalleled ability to capture the essence of everyday human existence, he stands as a towering figure of modern literature.
The Russian author Anton Chekhov is among the major short-story writers and dramatists in history. He wrote seventeen plays and almost six hundred stories. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in Taganrog in South Russia on the Azov Sea on . He was the third of six children of Pavel Egorovich Chekhov, a grocery store owner.
Chekhov’s plays are still staged, his works still read. He is one of the greatest writers of his time and his tremendous body of work shaped the arc of literature and still does.
Chekhov, a doctor and the grandson of a serf, became famous as a story-writer before his first successes as a playwright. Doctors come and go in his plays, sometimes expressing wisdom and more often resignation.
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) remains one of world literature’s most enduring and influential figures. A physician by training and a writer by vocation, Chekhov revolutionised the short story and drama with his understated yet profound style.