![]() ![]() Chekhov enjoyed great success for many years. While travelling to the Ukraine for his health in the late 1880s, he was commissioned to write a play, and his literary career took off in earnest. Chekhov suffered from poor health in the mid-1880s, but told very few people of his struggles with tuberculosis. Chekhov went on to make more money as a writer than a doctor, though he considered himself as a physician first and foremost for much of his life. In order to make ends meet while he studied, he wrote and published satirical short stories and sketches. Chekhov moved to Moscow in 1879 to attend medical school, knowing he had to support his large and struggling family. Born in 1860 in a port town in the south of Russia, Anton Chekhov grew up in a household ruled by an abusive father-an imposing figure whose cruelty and plunging of the family into bankruptcy inspired many of Chekhov’s dramatic works and short fictions. ![]()
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