Anton P.Chekhov The Russian Playwright

The greatest short-story writer in the Russian history, Anton Chekhov, spent half of his life in small beautiful town Yalta. Here is a short story.
Famous Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov spent nearly half his life in small town around the south-eastern coast with the Crimean peninsula � Yalta.
In March 1897 Chekhov was informed they have tuberculosis together to go to Yalta avoiding spring and autumn damp of Moscow and St.Retersburg. Chekhov wrote about Yalta, not without irony: "two most noticeable featured from the smart Yalta crowd: middle-aged ladies dressed like ladies, as well as a large number of generals..."
In 1989 he made a decision to develop a house there. An impractical man, he paid excessive for any poor patch of land for the border of Yalta, over a mountain slope close to a Muslim cemetery. In 1899 the home was ready and Chekhov moved within his mother and sister Masha. Very soon his thin, tall and slightly stooping figure became a familiar sight in Yalta. Over the next few years Chekhov and his awesome family with persistent efforts planted trees and flowers in attempt to create a garden from this hilly, barren site, kept dogs and cranes. In 1900 Chekhov was delighted to have organized a smaller guest-house for TB sufferers.
Chekhov's numerous letters, tinged with sadness and irony, express his new life and also the cheerful atmosphere during visits by fellow-writers, including Ivan Bunin, Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Korolenko and Maxim Gorky. Chekhov was usually happy to go away from Yalta to Moscow or trips abroad. In 1900, the Moscow Art Theatre company came to Yalta and its particular founders, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, paid a surprise trip to their terminally ill friend. The tour was remembered for several years and also the building where they performed has miraculously survived subsequent wars and periodic reconstruction activities.
During the number of years of Chekhov's life in Yalta he worked enthusiastically. There he completed two plays, The Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904), pieces that have been manufactured by the Moscow Art Theatre, as well as the several famous short stories, most notable the brilliant In the Ravine, The Bride, The Man in a very Shell, Gooseberries, About Love and The Bishop. In ซีรี่ย์เกาหลี wrote probably considered one of his best short story, The Lady with all the Dog (also referred to as Lady with Lapdog), a narrative about partnership between a married man and woman in Yalta.
Modest naturally, Chekhov rarely thought with the level of his popularity. Only success and quickly spread interest in The Cherry Orchard demonstrated him love from the Russian audience.
Internationally, Chekhov's work remained unknown until few years after World War I Constance Garnett translated his plays and won him the admiration of your English-speaking authors including Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and George Bernard Shaw.
In the us, Chekhov's popularity begun mostly with the Stanislavski's technique of acting way of drama. The system has been manufactured by The Group Theatre whilst still being inspires and motivates American playwright, screenwriters and actors.
Virginia Woolf wrote bout Chekhov's stories in The Common Reader (1925):
"These stories are inconclusive... we need an extremely daring and alert a feeling of literature to produce us hear the tune, in particular those last notes which complete the harmony".
After his death (14 July 1904) his sister preserved the house just as it had been in Chekhov's some time and in 1926 she was appointed director of the Chekhov Museum which was create there. During the grim 30-month German occupation in the World War II, each time a German major was billeted there, she used her tact to guard the Museum from looting and he or she continued her guardianship up to her death in 1954 at the day of ninety-three.
Little today remains of the Chekhov's Yalta, which suffered with a horrible earthquake in June 1927, as well as the destruction with the World War II when Soviet troops retreated from your Crimea in 19941 and recaptured the peninsula in spring 1944.
The lively Yalta presently has a population of 140.000, a number swelled 4 times over inside the summer when visitors arrived at stay inside hotels and sanatoriums that dot the coastline. In the evenings the seaboard promenade, stretching for a lot of kilometres both sides of the town, is full of people experiencing the sea air, watching the ships, paying attention to music and visiting Chekhov museum.
Chekhov's plays became recognized worldwide generating him one with the best Russian dramatists of modern days.

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