WRITER

Anton Chekhov

1860 - 1904

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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов, IPA: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕexəf]; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. 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 was a physician by profession. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anton Chekhov is the 25th most popular writer (down from 20th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Russia (down from 9th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Writer.

Anton Chekhov is most famous for his short stories.

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Among writers, Anton Chekhov ranks 25 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean-Paul Sartre, T. S. Eliot, Ovid, Alexandre Dumas, Albert Camus, and Hesiod. After him are Rumi, Petrarch, Honoré de Balzac, Aesop, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Gabriel García Márquez.

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Among people born in 1860, Anton Chekhov ranks 2. Before him is Gustav Mahler. After him are Alphonse Mucha, Klara Hitler, Theodor Herzl, Eduard Buchner, Raymond Poincaré, Willem Einthoven, Isaac Albéniz, William Jennings Bryan, Niels Ryberg Finsen, and Kanō Jigorō. Among people deceased in 1904, Anton Chekhov ranks 1. After him are Antonín Dvořák, Theodor Herzl, Jamsetji Tata, Murad V, Isabella II of Spain, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Friedrich Ratzel, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Henry Morton Stanley, and Eadweard Muybridge.

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Among people born in Russia, Anton Chekhov ranks 14 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Igor Stravinsky (1882), Yuri Gagarin (1934), Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), and Peter the Great (1672). After him are Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Grigori Rasputin (1869), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Alexander Pushkin (1799), and Wassily Kandinsky (1866).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Anton Chekhov ranks 3. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), and Leo Tolstoy (1828). After him are Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ayn Rand (1905), Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Boris Pasternak (1890), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), and Ivan Turgenev (1818).

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