Tsehhov daam koeraga Chekov Lady and the Lapdog
The bare facts are always laughably inadequate to the complexity of "real" people.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29 January (New Style), 1860, in Taganrog, a small port on the Sea of Azov, in southern Russia. As the
son of a grocer and grandson of a serf, Chekhov was a first-generation intellectual. His
modest background and upbringing are crucial to his development as a writer. Chekhov always felt that he missed out on childhood. It was a
very hard lifeand it may have contributed to his poor health: he succumbed later on to the"family disease", tuberculosis, which led to his early
death at the age of 44.His mother was a quiet, gentle soul who was full of stories of her early life. In later years, Chekhov would say that "we
inherited our talent from our father,but mother gave us soul". The other great passion of his formative years was nature, the Russiancountryside.
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