The literary careers of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor…
1828 CE to 1971 CE
Anton Chekhov, the major literary figure in the last decade of the nineteenth century, contributes in two genres: short story and drama.
Chekhov, a realist who examines not society as a whole but the foibles of individuals, produces a large volume of sometimes tragic, sometimes comic short stories and several outstanding plays, including The Cherry Orchard, a dramatic chronicling of the decay of a Russian aristocratic family.
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Northeastern Eurasia
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