Английский язык, 6 класс

Anton Chekov was born in 1860 , the third among six children to a lower middle-class family. The young Anton grew up in the city of Taganrog where his father, Pavel Chekov, was a grocery shopkeeper. The blond, brown-eyed Chekhov was a self-reliant, amusing, energetic, and attractive young man. He entered the medical faculty of Moscow University. After graduating in 1884, he went to work in the hospital at Chikino. Then Chekhov decided to try writing for the humor magazines he himself liked to read. In March 1880 the Dragonfly published his first sketch. During that year it published nine more, most of them signed "Antosha Chekhonte." In the fall of 1881 he had stories accepted by the Alarm Clock, and he and his older brothers Aleksandr and Nikolai published in a new humor magazine, the Spectator. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was the author of several hundred works of short fiction and of several plays that are among the most important and influential dramatic works of the twentieth century. He was also a noted public figure who in his opinions and actions often challenged notions that were dominant in Russian social thought of the time.