Very brief biography of Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is a great Russian writer, a classic of world literature, a talented playwright, glorified around the world, an academician. Childhood Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog in January of the year. His father was a small grocer. From an early age, along with the brothers, Anton helped his father in his shop. Anton had four brothers and two sisters, one of whom died at an early age.

Chekhov’s childhood passed in church holidays, every day the future writer sang in the church choir. At the age of seven, Chekhov was defined in a Greek school, because his father was doing business with local Greeks and wanted his sons to know the Greek language. But completely illiterate teachers were taught there. The next place of training Chekhov was the gymnasium.

It was an ordinary provincial state gymnasium. There the writer received a good education, met with talented people. The law teacher gave Chekhov a joking nickname Czechont, which became his literary pseudonym. It was during his studies at the gymnasium that Chekhov wrote his first poem, which was published in the manuscript journal. He signed it with a pseudonym. Already in the gymnasium years, Chekhov made the impression of a rich gifted young man.

In the year, his father went bankrupt and was forced to flee with his family from creditors to Moscow. Anton until the end of the gymnasium remained in Taganrog. He had to learn and at the same time earn a living not only for himself, but also for a desperately needy family. He continued to live in a house that was his family, but now he moved into someone else's hands.

Through the corner that the new owner of the house took Chekhov, he had to engage in his nephew for free. In addition, he had to look for other pennies for himself and, almost all of his free time from classes went to tutoring. This period of needs and deprivation contributed at the same time to the development of a sense of independence and self -esteem among Chekhov.

He was very seriously engaged in medicine, no less seriously than literary activity. Natural sciences played a very important role in the formation of Chekhov’s views on life. They contributed to the ripening of a high idea of ​​life, the formation of ideal. The appearance of the first printed work of Anton Pavlovich in the press appeared in the journal "Dragonfly". He writes mainly in the genre of a short story, humor, scenes, signing a pseudonym.

After graduation, Chekhov begins the practice of a county doctor, works a lot and fruitfully, then suddenly receives an invitation to work from the famous publisher A. from Suvorin in the newspaper New Time. At that time, serious problematic works begin to prevail in the writer's work. At that time, the works of L. in the 2nd half of the 10th years A. Chekhov worked a lot for the theater.

Chekhov goes to Siberia to then visit the island of Sakhalin - the place of exile convicts to hard labor. On Sakhalin, he made a census of the island’s population, amounting to about 10 thousand statistical cards. A trip to Sakhalin was crowned with great success. Chekhov saw the arbitrariness of the officials who was going on on the island. Thanks to her, the investigation of bureaucratic arbitrariness was launched.

During the trip, Chekhov is aggravated by tuberculosis, which he had been sick since childhood.

Returning from the island, the writer does not want to sit still and goes on a trip. In the year, Chekhov married the artist of the Moscow Art Theater Olga Leonardovna Knipper, but because of his illness, he was often forced to live in separation from his wife. A difficult time came in Russia in Russia - drought destroyed crops, people were starving. With his own money, Anton Pavlovich acquires a manor in Melikhovo, where he opens schools and a first -aid post for the peasants.

He also takes part in the construction of the road, is engaged in planting trees. His house is always full of guests. In the stories and stories of the end - early x, A. Chekhov developed the theme of spiritual stagnation in the life of society, emphasized the desperate search for a breakthrough for a better life. Lung tuberculosis forced Chekhov to move with his family to Crimea, where he acquired a plot near Yalta in the year and built a house.

This period is characterized by the active social life of Chekhov. He treats patients, gives money for the construction of schools, becomes the trustee of the female gymnasium. Due to the aggravation of the disease, the writer goes to Germany to undergo treatment on the night of July 15, the writer died. Chekhov had a great influence on the development of Russian and world literature - prose and drama.

A. Gorky, I. Bunin, A. Kuprin and other writers studied from him. Chekhov laid new ways for the development of Russian and world drama. Until now, he remains one of the most popular playwrights of the domestic and foreign theater. Chekhov Anton Pavlovich.