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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in Taganrog, Russia, on January 29th, 1860. He was an average kid, and the third of six children. Growing up in a peasant family gave Anton the maturity needed to write such deep creations and know the reality of what was truly out there during the 19th century. Also, his brutal childhood with his father Pavel, a grocer, always beating up Anton and his two older brothers gave him a real perspective on how painful life could really be. However, he had no positive fatherly figure, he did have a good mother, Yevgeniya, who had a mind for art in language form. This is told to have been what sparked Anton's future in writing, as she was the one who taught him how to read and write. Along with not having a perfect childhood, during Anton's years at a university in Taganrog, his whole family moved to Moscow because Pavel lost his job and went to Moscow for new work. This left the family with no way to sustain themselves. So, they immediately ran out of money and had to follow Pavel to Moscow so they could be supported again. This left Anton alone in Taganrog with no way to support himself. Having to adapt to his new problems also gave Anton needed mature experiences for his later passionate writing. His writing profession consisted of short story writings and playwrights. He spent the other half of his life in medicine as a physician. Anton is known mainly for his practice with short stories. His work with writing started as a way to provide him with financial aid and led to the advancement of short stories, with his new thoughts on the limitations of writing them. Even though he was big in writing most of his life, he did not fully embrace himself with writing until 1884, when he became ill with symptoms of tuberculosis while taking on all the debt of his family. So, taking on a full time job as a writer led him to reinvent his writing and bring about one of our modern ways of writing and most of his greatest works. After denying illness for numerous amounts of years, the final day came on July 15th, 1904, as he suffered from his second heart attack and died in a rented bed in Badenweiler, Germany.

His works and the years they were written:

 * //The Shooting Party//, 1884-85
 * //On the Harmfulness of Tobacco//, 1886
 * //Ivanov//, 1887
 * //The Swan Song//, 1888
 * //The Steppe//, 1888
 * //The Bear//, 1888
 * //A Dreary Story// / //A Boring Story//, 1889
 * //The Proposal//, 1889
 * //The Wedding//, 1889
 * //The Wood Demon//, 1889
 * //The Reluctant Tragedian//, 1890
 * //The Duel//, 1891
 * //The Grasshopper//, 1892
 * //The Anniversary//, 1892
 * //Ward Number Six//, 1897
 * //The Island: A Journey to Sakhalin//, 1893
 * //The Black Monk//, 1894
 * //The Student//, 1894
 * //My Life//, 1895
 * //The House with the Mezzanine//, 1896
 * //The Seagull//, 1896
 * //Uncle Vanya//, 1897
 * //The Peasants//, 1897
 * //Gooseberries//, 1898
 * //Ionych//, 1898
 * //Man in a Case//, 1898
 * //The Lady with a Lapdog//, 1899
 * //The Darling//, 1899
 * //Three Sisters//, 1901
 * //The Bishop//, 1902
 * //The Fiancée//, 1903
 * //The Cherry Orchard//, 1904
 * //Tales//, 1916-22 (13 vols.)
 * //That Worthless Fellow Platonov//, 1923
 * //Letters on the Short Story, the Drama and other Literary Topics//, 1924
 * //Tatyana Repin//, 1944-51
 * //On the Highway//, 1944-55
 * //Plays//, 1959
 * //The Oxford Chekhov//, 1964-80 (9 VOLS.)
 * //Letters of Anton Chekhov//, 1973
 * //The Kiss and Other Stories//, 1982
 * //Plays//, 1982
 * //The Early Stories 1883-1888//, 1982
 * //The Party and Other Stories//, 1985
 * //The Chekhov Omnibus//, 1986

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