Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (January 29, 1860 - July 14/15, 1904) was a doctor and writer.

He was born in Taganrog[?], Russia.

He qualified as a doctor in 1884 although he rarely practised. After a successful production of The Seagull by the Moscow Art Theatre, he wrote three more plays for the same company: Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. In 1901 he married Olga Leonardovna Knipper (1870-1959), an actress who performed in his plays.

Chekhov is one of the few Russian dramatists whose works are well known in western Europe. His plays commonly feature the struggle of a sensitive individual to maintain his integrity against the temptations of worldly success. A recurring theme is the pointlessness of radical, human/mechanical change, versus the powerful inertia of slow natural/organic cycles.

He died in Badenweiler, Germany of tuberculosis and is now buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.

Works

Plays

• That Worthless Fellow Platonov (c.1881) - one act
• On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco (1886, 1902)
• Ivanov (1887) - four acts
• The Bear (1888) - one act comedy
• The Proposal or A Marriage Proposal (c.1888-1889) - one act
• The Wood Demon (1889) - four-act comedy
• The Seagull[?] (1896)
• Uncle Vanya[?] (1899-1900) - based on The Wood Demon
• The Three Sisters[?] (1901)
• The Cherry Orchard[?] (1904)

Nonfiction

• A Journey to Sakhalin (1895), including:
  • Saghalien [or Sakhalin] Island (1891-1895)
  • Across Siberia
  • Letters

Short Stories

• Intrigues (1879-1884) - nine stories
• Late-Blooming Flowers (1882)
• The Swedish Match (1883)
• Lights (1883-1888)
• Oysters (1884)
• Perpetuum Mobile (1884)
• Motley Stories (Pëstrye Rasskazy) (1886)
• Excellent People (1886)
• Misery (1886)
• The Princess (1886)
• The Scholmaster (1886)
• A Work of Art (1886)
• Hydrophobia (1886-1901)
• The Beggar (1887)
• The Doctor (1887)
• Enemies (1887)
• The Examining Magistrate (1887)
• Happiness (1887)
• The Kiss (1887)
• On Easter Eve (1887)
• Typhus (1887)
• Volodya (1887)
• The Steppe (1888) - won the Pushkin Prize
• An Attack of Nerves (1888)
• An Awkward Business (1888)
• The Beauties (1888)
• The Swan Song (1888)
• Sleepy (1888)
• The Name-Day Party (1888)
• A Boring Story (1889)
• Gusev (1890)
• The Horse Stealers (1890)
• The Duel (1891)
• Peasant Wives (1891)
• Ward No 6 (1892)
• In Exile (1892)
• The Grasshopper (1892)
• Neighbours (1892)
• Terror (1892)
• My Wife (1892)
• The Butterfly (1892)
• The Two Volodyas (1893)
• An Anonymous Story (1893)
• The Black Monk (1894)
• The Head Gardener's Story (1894)
• Rothschild's Fiddle (1894)
• The Student (1894)
• The Teacher of Literature (1894)
• A Woman's Kingdom (1894)
• Three Years (1895)
• Ariadne (1895)
• Murder (1895)
• The House with an Attic (1896)
• My Life (1896)
• At Home (1897)
• Peasants (1897)
• In the Cart (1897)
• The Man in a Case, Gooseberries, About Love - the 'Little Trilogy' (1898)
• Ionych (1898)
• A Doctor's Visit (1898)
• The New Villa (1898)
• On Official Business (1898)
• The Darling (1899)
• The Lady with the Dog (1899)
• At Christmas (1899)
• In the Ravine (1900)
• The Bishop (1902)
• Betrothed or A Marriageable Girl (1903)

Novels

• The Shooting Party (1884-1885)

External Links e-texts of some of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's works:

• The Cattle-Dealers (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=341)
• The Grasshopper (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=794)
• In The Coach-House (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=982)
• In The Ravine (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=986)
• Letters of Anton Chekhov (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2405)
• A Malefactor (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=1242)
• Peasants (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=1647)
• The Schoolmistress, and other stories (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2074)
• The Sea-Gull (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2082)
• Swan Song (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=2125)
• Uncle Vanya (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=1548)
• The Wife, and other stories (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=1801)
• The Witch and other stories (http://www.abacci.com/books/book.asp?bookID=1865)