Anton Chekhov, Russian dramatist and short-story writer, was born in 1860, the son of a grocer and the grandson of a serf. After graduating in medicine from Moscow University in 1884, he began to make his name in the theatre with the one-act comedies
The Bear,
The Proposal and
The Wedding. His earliest full-length plays,
Ivanov (1887) and
The Wood Demon (1889), were not successful, and
The Seagull, produced in 1896, was a failure until a triumphant revival by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898. This was followed by
Uncle Vanya (1899),
Three Sisters (1901) and
The Cherry Orchard (1904), shortly after the production of which Chekhov died. The first English translations of his plays were performed within five years of his death.
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