Dramas, such as
The Seagull
(1896, revised 1898), and including "
A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also
Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
Born (
Антон Павлович Чехов
) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered
Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekh…
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