Chekhov was an important Russian playwright and short story writer. The son of a grocer, he trained as a doctor in Moscow. By the age of twenty-six he was a well-known writer, but he saw his medical work as his main career. He was writing plays when he was still a medical student, butthose which have survived are all from the last eight years of his life. He also wrote one novel, The Shooting Party (1885). Much of his work waspublished under pen names.
Chekhov caught tuberculosis in his thirties and went into a long decline, spending much of his time travelling in
… More search of cures. He died in Germany at the age of forty-four.Three years before his deathhe married the actress Olga Knipper,whooutlived him by fifty-eight years.
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