Tsehhov daam koeraga Chekov Lady and the Lapdog
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.
As a port, Taganrog was surrounded on all sides by the landscapes of the Steppe and Chekhov's earliest stories reveal how intensely aware he
was of his bond with the Don Steppe. Chekhov had always claimed that medicine was his wife and literature his mistress. Chekhov had
lived for much of his career as a writer under the shadow of the great literary
colossus of the age, Lev Tolstoy.
The Seagull [Chaika] suffered one of the most disastrous first nights of any of
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