have continued uninterruptedly to the present day and, it appears, have always been the most important thing in human life and on the earth in general” ( Poln. In 1894 he wrote the story “The Student,” in which he asserts that “truth and beauty. In approximately 1893, Chekhov’s work moved in a new direction. He administered medical aid to the local peasants, built schools for the peasants’ children, visited some of the famine-stricken provinces in 1892, worked as district physician during the cholera epidemic of 1892–93, and helped in the national census of 1897. In 1892 he bought the estate of Melikhovo in the Serpukhov District, 13 versts from the Lopasnia Station (now Chekhov). In the 1890’s and early 1900’s Chekhov made a number of trips abroad. His plays included Ivanov (1887–89), the one-act comedy The Wedding (1889 published 1890), The Wood Demon (1889 published 1890, later revised and reissued as Uncle Vanya), and the one-act farces The Bear, The Proposal, and The Anniversary. In the second half of the 1880’s Chekhov wrote extensively for the theater. I felt as though I were locked up in ward no. Lenin described his impression of the work: “When I finished this story last night I was genuinely terrified, I couldn’t stay in my room, I got up and went out. 6” represented the high point of Chekhov’s critical realism of the late 1880’s and early 1890’s. Imbued with a spirit of protest against the horrors of prison life, “Ward No. 6” (1892), which summed up the entire experience.
“The Steppe” and “The Name-Day Party” appeared in 1888, followed in 1889 by “An Attack of Nerves” and “A Dreary Story.” This period also saw the publication of several collections of Chekhov’s short stories-namely, In the Twilight (1887 awarded half of the Pushkin Prize in 1888), Innocent Speeches (1887), Tales (1888), and Gloomy People (1890).Ĭhekhov’s journey to the island of Sakhalin in 1890 made a deep impression on him, which left its mark in his journalistic essay of 1893–94, The Island of Sakhalin (published as a book in 1895), in the short stories “In Exile” (1892) and “The Murder” (1895), and in the novella “Ward No. This letter was one of the factors that hastened Chekhov’s shift from “trifling” to “well-considered work.” The transition from the purely humorous to the “realm of the serious” occurred between 18. Grigorovich wrote Chekhov a letter praising his “real talent” and urging him to “give up working under a deadline” and save “ impressions for a well-considered work” (see Slovo, collection no. Chekhov’s first book of short stories, Tales of Melpomene, was published in 1884 it was followed in 1886 by Motley Tales. A collection entitled At Leisure (later called The Prank) was prepared for publication in 1882 but never appeared in print, apparently because of censorship. He contributed to various humor magazines, such as Oskolki, using different pen names-for example, Antosha, A Man Without a Spleen, Brother of My Brother, and, most frequently, Antosha Chekhonte. He studied medicine at the University of Moscow, graduated in 1884 with the title of district physician, and for some time practiced medicine.Ĭhekhov began writing in the late 1870’s. In 1879 he finished school and moved to Moscow. Left to himself, Chekhov continued his studies, earning his living by tutoring. In 1876 the father went bankrupt and left for Moscow, followed by his family. As a boy, Chekhov helped his father in the store he entered the Taganrog Gymnasium in 1868. Russian writer.Ĭhekhov’s father, a merchant of the third guild, owned a grocery store. 17 (29), 1860, in Taganrog died July 2 (15), 1904, in Badenweiler, Germany buried in Moscow.
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