![]() The family was forced to move to Moscow following his father's bankruptcy. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog (1867-68) and Taganrog grammar school (1868-79). "When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." His early years were shadowed by his father's tyranny, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, which was open from five in the morning till midnight. ![]() ![]() Yevgenia Morozova, Chekhov's mother, was the daughter of a cloth merchant. He also taught himself to read and write. Chekhov's grandfather was a serf, who had bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. With an Introduction and Notes by Joe Andrew, Professor of Russian Literature, Keele University.Īnton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов) was born in the small seaport of Taganrog, southern Russia, the son of a grocer. ![]() Throughout, the doctor-turned-writer displays compassion for human suffering and misfortune, but is always able to see the comical, even farcical aspects of the human condition. This collection contains some of the most important of his earliest and shortest comic sketches, as well as examples of his great, mature works. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader's imagination. Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. ![]()
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