"Man becomes better when you show him who he is," said Chekhov, and it is true that in his works he neither judges nor condemns, leaving this task to the reader.
Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog, Azov Oblast in 1860 and died of tuberculosis in Badenweiler, Germany in 1904, at the age of 44, where he had sought medical treatment.
In 1879, he entered the Medical School of Moscow, from which he graduated and served the science until the end of his life. Alongside his medical studies, he began his writing career, but never abandoned medicine.
He starts writing from a very young age, and while at the height of his success, he departs for Sakhalin Island, where he carefully studies the lives of exiles and convicts. He is already sick with tuberculosis. The result of this experience is the study "Sakhalin Island".
In Moscow, the Stanislavski Theater stages "The Seagull" for the first time. He marries the leading actress of the troupe, Olga Knipper.
The heroes of his works are teachers, doctors, students, civil servants, merchants, landowners, and suffering women. Chekhov does not write drama, he writes comedy, in the form of farce. He was able to predict the problems and conflicts of the 20th century, the change of social structures.
He is one of the greatest playwrights of the 19th century and beyond.
Many of Chekhov's short stories have been dramatized, while some humorous ones have been turned into animated cartoons because they present theatricality.