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ANTON CHEKHOV

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian writer. He was born in 1860 at Taganrog and died in 1904. He studied medicine at Moscow University. In 1879 he began contributing humorous sketches to popular periodicals, and after graduating devoted his attention to writing novels and plays, mainly short stories.
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