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Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov. Chekhov Early Life. Born in Taganrog seaport 3 rd of six children Son of grocer Grandson of serf. Chekhov Early Life. Father religious zealot – family tyrant Childhood marked by despotism, lying

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Anton Chekhov

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  1. Anton Chekhov

  2. Chekhov Early Life Born in Taganrog seaport 3rd of six children Son of grocer Grandson of serf

  3. Chekhov Early Life • Father religious zealot – family tyrant • Childhood marked by despotism, lying • Acquainted with 19th century • lower middle class and peasant life • Becomes subject of mature work

  4. Chekhov Early Life • 1875 father’s business failed • Debt - threatened with imprisonment • Father went to Moscow • Mother was left with Anton & sister • Mother lost house went to Moscow • Anton finished high school alone in Taganrog

  5. Chekhov’s friends Chekhov was friends with artists, painters, writers and publishers Following are slides of his painter friend Levitan’s paintings. Some were turned into stamps. These slides depict the countryside that Chekhov saw each day.

  6. Chekhov Medical Student Scholarship medicine in Moscow Wrote to support family Support family for rest of his life 1883-1885 comic stories newspapers

  7. Themes in stories, plays • Petty tyranny government officials • Suffering of the poor • coarseness & vulgarity (poshlost) • Ironic misunderstandings and • cross purposes between people • Starvation, abandonment • Treatment of orphans

  8. Mature work • 1885 invited to write for most respected city paper • New Times edited Alexi Suvorin • Recognized by “dean of Russian letters” Grigorovich • 1884 decline in health – denied tuberculosis • 1888 received Pushkin Prize • Russia’s highest literary prize for his short stories

  9. Drama 1887 began to publish plays – debut Ivanov 1880s also published stories drawing on Chekhov's medical expertise and depicting psychosomatic illness or the psychological effects of physical disease or distress Sleepy is an example

  10. Prison Reform • Sakhalin Island census • Recorded misery on prison island • Result: Russian prison reform • 5,000 miles through Siberia • returned Hong Kong, Singapore, Ceylon • Trip to Italy & France with Suvorin

  11. Chekhov’s Melikovo Estate

  12. Marriage Married actress Olga Knipper 1898 Died 1904

  13. Biographical material from website Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/chekhovbio.html

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