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'''Anton Pavlovich Checkhov born in 1860 and dying in 1904, was a Russian dramatist and short-story author.
== Career ==
He studied at the Moscow University qualifying as a doctor in 1884. He started as a writer with short stories (writing fifty in all) and sketches while a student.
He is most known for his plays, but these did not first appear until the last years of the nineteenth century.