Anton Chekhov
Noun
Meaning
Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904)
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Among others, pioneering role in founding the rules of the genre in the Western canon have: Rudyard Kipling (United Kingdom), Anton Chekhov (Russia), Guy de Maupassant (France), Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera (Mexico) and Rubén Darío (Nicaragua).
Famous playwrights such as Henrik Ibsen or Anton Chekhov have had their works adapted many times.
Anton Chekhov vividly described the Amur River in writings about his journey to Sakhalin Island in 1890.
Everyone in my house was an art enthusiast, so the dinner table conversations always revolved around Vijay Tendulkar or Anton Chekhov.
One day he recorded a one-man performance of by Anton Chekhov, playing all the sisters while wearing a belted doona and purple curtains from his cabin.
In the summer of 1988, Binoche returned to the stage in an acclaimed production of Anton Chekhov 's The Seagull directed by Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky at Théâtre De L'odéon in Paris.