Anton chekhov biographical timeline information

Early Life

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born to poverty on January 29,1860 inTaganrog, a Russian mercantile city on the coast of the Black Sea.His mother was the daughter of a cloth merchant, his father was agrocer and his grandfather was a serf.

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The young Chekhov attended aschool for Greek boys as well as a grammar school between the years1867-79. Chekhov's family life during these early years reflected thepolitical situation in Russia. The system of serfdom having beenabolished only a year after Chekhov was born, the country was vastlymired in medieval conditions. Although Czar Alexander II was"determined to bring at least a ray of light into the darkness" andthe use of serfs as property to be sold, gambled or used ascollateral was abolished, the reality of serfs was still poverty, asthey did not own the land.

The hunger and oppression that accompaniedpoverty incited peasant revolts. Likewise, in Chekhov's household,there was much discontentment of the su Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) - PIXOQ