1. Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov Антоновой Дарьи 9 в

2. Some Facts About His Life  Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov - b. Jan. 17, 1860; d. July 1/2, 1904  He is a Russian playwright and one of the great masters of modern short story.  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in the small seaport of Taganrog, southern Russia.  He was a son of a grocer and grandson of a serf, who had bought his own freedom.  Chekhov's mother was Yevgenia Morozova, the daughter of a cloth merchant.

4.  He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog (1867-68) and Taganrog grammar school (1868-79).  The family was forced to move to Moscow following his father's bankruptcy.  At the age of 16, Chekhov became independent and remained for some time alone in his native town.

5.  In 1879 Chekhov entered the Moscow University Medical School.  While in the school, he started to publish hundreds of comic short stories to support himself and his mother, sisters and brothers.  His works appeared in St. Petersburg daily papers, Peterburskaia paper from 1885, and Novoe vremia (New Time) from 1886.

7. As a short story writer Chekhov was phenomenally fast - he could compose a little sketch or a joke while just visiting at a newspaper office. During his career he produced several hundred tales. Chekhov's first full-length plays were failures.

8. Chekhov bought in 1892 a country estate in the village of Melikhove, where his best stories were written, including 'Neighbours' (1892), 'Ward Number Six', 'The Black Monk' (1894), 'The Murder' (1895), and 'Ariadne' (1895). He also served as a volunteer census taker, participated in famine relief, and worked as a medical inspector during cholera epidemics. In 1897 he fell ill with tuberculosis and lived since either abroad or in the Crimea.

10. Chekhov died on July 14/15, 1904, in Badenweiler, Germany. He was buried in the cemetery of the Novodeviche Monastery in Moscow. He got married in 1901 the Moscow Art Theater actress Olga Knipper (1870-1959), who had several years central roles in his plays on stage.

11. Chekhov The Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard Ivanoff The Proposal Uncle Vanya The Boor

12. Presentation was made by Dasha Antonova I used: Wikipedia, rambler.ru, http://chehov.niv.ru, literature book. http://chehov.niv.ru