Anton Pavlovitsj Chekhov was born on January 29, 1860 in Taganrog, Russia. His father was a grocer and his fathers father a serf. At the tender age of fifteen Anton’s father runs away from their hometown because he is bankrupt. Shortly after Anton and the rest of his family is kicked out of there home. Four years later they all come together again in Moscow.
When Anton got older he started a career as a comical writer for small magazine companies. His pseudonym was Antosha Chekhonte. Antosha was what his parents used to call him when he was a young boy. In 1884 Anton decided that he wanted to go into the medical field so he enrolled himself into a university. Since his family did not have a lot of money to send him to school he needed a way to pay his way through college. Anton decided that he would continue writing on th
In March of 1897 Chekhov suffered a severe lung hemorrhage he moved to Crimea in 1989 because of his poor health. He died of Tuberculosis on July 14, 1904. He was 44 years old. He died in a bedroom of a German health resort. He was buried in Moscow, Russia shortly after his death. After his death his plays had become increasingly popular throughout not only Russia but also the whole world.
He continued writing after he graduated from the university and in 1887 he had finished writing his first play called Ivannov which was about a man very much like himself that committed suicide. In 1888 his second play called The Wood Demon was produced but wasn’t very good and as a result didn’t last more then three performances. These first plays that he wrote were not very successful at all. The Seagulls was produced in 1896 by th