Anton chekhov cause of death
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Early Life
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born to poverty on January 29,1860 inTaganrog, a Russian mercantile city on the coast of the Black Sea.His mother was the daughter of a cloth merchant, his father was agrocer and his grandfather was a serf. The young Chekhov attended aschool for Greek boys as well as a grammar school between the years1867-79. Chekhov's family life during these early years reflected thepolitical situation in Russia. The system of serfdom having beenabolished only a year after Chekhov was born, the country was vastlymired in medieval conditions. Although Czar Alexander II was"determined to bring at least a ray of light into the darkness" andthe use of serfs as property to be sold, gambled or used ascollateral was abolished, the reality of serfs was still poverty, asthey did not own the land. The hunger and oppression that accompaniedpoverty incited peasant revolts. Likewise, in Chekhov's household,there was much discontentment of the submissive mother and sixchildren who was subject to harsh and oppressive patriarchal rule.Chekhov's f
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In this monologue, Ivan Ivanovich Nyukhin, has been told by his wife to give a lecture about "the harmful effects of tobacco," although he is a smoker. He emphasizes that this will be a dry and boring lecture. In the end, Nyukhin has said hardly anything on topic, but asks the audience not to betray him: "If she asks you, please, I beg you, tell her that her scarecrow husband, I mean, the lecturer, me, behaved with dignity." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Harmful_Effects_of_Tobacco
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ARTicles vol. 7 i. 3: Timeline of Checkhov’s Life
1860 – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is born in the port town of Taganrog, the third son of shopkeeper Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov and Yevgeniya Yakolevna Morozova.
1876 – Chekhov’s father goes bankrupt and moves the family to Moscow, except Anton, who remains in Taganrog to finish his schooling.
1877 – Anton Pavlovich visits his family in Moscow, to find them living in poverty.
1879 – Chekhov completes high school and moves to Moscow, where he enrolls in the medical school at the University of Moscow on a scholarship.
1880 – Chekhov’s first short story is published in the comic journal The Dragon-fly. For the next seven years, he will write for various comic journals in Moscow and St. Petersburg, under various pseudonyms: Antosha Chekhonte, the Man without a Spleen, Doctor Who’s Lost His Patients, and My Brother’s Brother.
1881 – Chekhov writes the untitled play known today as Platonov. It is turned down by the Maly Theatre.
1884 – Chekhov finishes his medical studies
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