Romanova Anastasia, 8 «А»

•To acquaint oneself with life and creation of famous Russian playwright A. P. Chekhov

•To explore interesting facts of the biography of A. P. Chekhov

•To find and inspect remembrance of A. P. Chekhov

•To go to the theatre to watch plays of famous Russian playwright

Chekhov is Russian playwright and one of the great masters of

modern short story. In his work Chekhov

portrayed often life in the Russian small

towns.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the small seaport of Taganrog, on south of Russia in a family of a grocer. Chekhov's mother was

Yevgenia Morozova, the daughter of a cloth merchant.

He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog (1867-68) and

Taganrog grammar school (1868-1879).

In 1879 Chekhov entered the Moscow University Medical

School. He became a doctor.

He started to publish hundreds of comic short stories in magazine «Oskolki».

In 1890 Chekhov traveled all over the world and explored people's lives on harsh island Sakhalin. Chekhov returned to Russia via Singapore, India, Ceylon, and the Suez Canal. Chekhov bought in 1892 a country estate in the village of

Melikhovo, where his best stories were written From 1892 to 1899 Chekhov worked in Melikhovo, and in Yalta from 1899.

Chekhov's first novel, «Absurd victory» (1882), set

in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular

Hungarian writer Mor Jokai. «The Shooting Party» was translated into English in

1926. Chekhov's fist book of stories (1886) was a

success, and gradually he became a full-time writer.

The most famous Chekhov's plays are

«Cherry garden», «Uncle Vanya», «The Seagull» , «Three Sisters».

I went to the «Sovremennik» theatre. I was

amazed by play of famous Russian

actors. These plays connected different

centuries in our consciousness.

Chekhov married in 1901 the Moscow Art Theater actress Olga

Knipper (1870-1959), who had several years central roles in his

plays on stage.

Chekhov died on July 14/15, 1904, in Badenweiler, Germany. He was

buried in the cemetery of the Novodeviche Monastery in

Moscow.

Nowadays people visit museums and monument of the playwright and one of the great masters of modern short story.

The books of A. P. Chekhov are very popular nowadays. His plays

are modern and now.

Chekhov is Russian

playwright and one of the great

masters of modern

short story, therefore his

creation is dear for each person.