By the time that he earned his medical degree in 1884, his main interest was writing. To help with his family's finances, he started publishing articles, tales, jokes, and anecdotes. Away from his father, his true nature blossomed and replaced misery with a youthful exuberance to which was added a passion for the theater and music.Īfter finishing school in Taganrog, Chekhov went to Moscow, where he studied medicine at the University on schol-arship. Anton remained in Taganrog where he was in school on a scholarship. Remember the fear and revulsion we felt every time Father threw his indignant and furious tantrums at the din-ner table because the soup was too salty, reviling and insult-ing our mother as if she were a dim-witted imbecile."Īt age sixteen, Chekhov was left to fend for himself when his father moved the family to Moscow in order to escape debtor's prison. Despotism and lies have spoiled our youth to such a degree that it is loathsome and terrible to recall it. "I beg you to remember that despotism and lies destroyed your mother's youth.
In a letter to one of his brothers, Chekhov later wrote: The tyrannical father did not spare the boys in any way, and Anton was an often-flogged little garbage man and bartender. The fam-ily rived in a miserable neighborhood and their one-story house had a shop in the front and a tavern in the basement. His father, a small shopkeeper, had been born a serf, but his grandfather had saved enough money to buy freedom for himself and his sons.Ĭhekhov had four brothers and one sister, and their needs were a primary concern for him during his entire life. ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV was born on January 17, 1860, in Taganrog, a port on the Sea of Azov.
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