Even those who are reluctant to master the school curriculum in literature undoubtedly know who Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is. At school, unfortunately, very little attention is paid to studying the question of what this great Russian writer was like in life. Meanwhile, biographers and those who knew Chekhov personally, note that he was an outstanding personality.
From the biography of Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in 1860 in Taganrog. The family was large. The father of the future writer at one time was a clerk and owned a small shop. He kept his children in great severity, not allowing pranks and liberties. Chekhov's mother spent almost all the time on her family. She was very fond of children, and in her free time she attended the theater, which was her former passion.
It was his mother who managed to influence Anton, instilling in him respect for others, compassion for the weak and love for the world around him.
When Chekhov was already a young man, his father went bankrupt, sold a shop, after which the family moved to Moscow in search of a better life. Here, the future writer entered the medical faculty of Moscow University. Already at that time his first serious works were born, and soon the craft of writing became for Chekhov the main source of income. Even after taking the post of county doctor, he did not stop his literary work.
