Anton Chekhov
A Famous Russian A.R.G.P.
Personal Life
Anton Chekhov was born on January 29 1860 an he died on July 15 1904 in Badenweiler Germany.Chekhov’s literary progress during his early 20s may be charted by the first appearance of his work in a sequence of publications in the capital, Chekhov’s best plays and short stories lack complex plots and neat solutions. . Chekhov described the Russian life of his time using a deceptively simple technique devid of obtrusive literary devices, and he is regarded as the outstanding representative of the late 19th-century Russian realist school.His first story appeared in a Moscow paper in 1880, and after some difficulty he secured a position connected with several of the smaller periodicals, for which, during his student years, he poured forth a succession of short stories and sketches of Russian life with incredible rapidity. Pushkin Prize, Division of Russian Language and Letters of the Academy of Sciences, 1888, for collection of stories, V sumerkakh (In the Twilight); elected Honorary Academician of the Pushkin Section of Belle Lettres of the Academy of Sciences, 1899; awarded Order of St.