Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904) is a great Russian writer, talented playwright, academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and a doctor by profession. The most important thing in his work is that many of his works have become classics of world literature, and his plays are staged in theaters around the world. Chekhov's stories are short, but behind the apparent simplicity they hide the depth of meaning and complexity of artistic construction. Laconicism, stunning humor, irony and rich content make them unique and have no analogues in world literature. Maxim Gorky wrote: “No one understood as clearly and subtly as Anton Chekhov the tragedy of the little things in life, no one before him knew how to paint so mercilessly truthfully people a shameful and dreary picture of their life in the dull chaos of bourgeois everyday life." Interesting facts: - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was very fond of signing his stories with interesting pseudonyms, of which there were about 50. The most popular among them was Antosha Chekhonte. - In the Chekhov family it was believed that the surname their family descends from a Czech ancestor.—The playwright Chekhov’s wife was theater artist Olga Leonardovna Knipper, who outlived him by 55 years. After the death of her husband, according to her will, she received a dacha in Gurzuf and five thousand rubles. - Chekhov had two favorite dachshund dogs, to which he gave unusual names - Brom Isaevich and Hina Markovna.

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