Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth29 January 1860
CityTaganrog, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.