Biography
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), born in Taganrog in southern Russia, is one of the supreme figures of world literature in both prose and drama. Chekhov supported his family from his teenage years by writing humorous sketches for magazines, and simultaneously studied medicine at Moscow University. His career as a writer and a practising physician continued in parallel throughout his life. Chekhov transformed the short story into a modern art form and composed four mature plays that revolutionised world theatre: The Seagull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1899), Three Sisters (1901), and The Cherry Orchard (1904). His collaboration with Konstantin Stanislavski at the Moscow Art Theatre established the foundations of modern ensemble acting and psychological realism. Chekhov contracted tuberculosis as a young man and died in Badenweiler in Germany at forty-four, having produced more than 500 short stories alongside his theatrical work.
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