Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer born in Taganrog in 1860. In 1879, he became a medical student in Moscow, later qualifying (1)_____ a doctor. With a needy family to support, Chekhov (2)_____ to writing, contributing short humorous stories and sketches (3)_____ popular newspapers. His major work (4)_____ to come towards the end of his short life -- Chekhov died of tuberculosis in 1904 -- his reputation resting chiefly (5)____ four plays, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, written in 1896, 1899, 1901 and 1904 (6)_____ All four workers, while gloomy and pessimistic (7)_____ tone, blend a poetic atmosphere (8)_____ a sympathetic treatment of characters (9)_____, unable to break (10)_____ of the vicious circle that they find (11)_____ in, are trapped in unfulfinglling lives which they feel (12)_____ powerless and dispirited to change. They (13)____ be regarded as symbolic (14)_____ the torpor and stagnation of late nineteeth century Crarist Russia. (15)____ realism is a product of Chekhov's scientific traning and experience as a provincial doctor. They remain masterpieces of Rusian literature


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