Anton chekhov Russian dramatist and short story writer , Anton pavlovich chekhov (1860-1904) was born in a small town on the coast of the black sea.He studied medicine and qualified himself as a physician.Soon he gave up his medical practice and associated himself with the Moscow Art Theatre under Constantin Stanislavski.In 1855 he wrote his theatrical debut On the High Road , a play in one act.Of his short plays , The Bear and The Proposal are perhaps the best known.His fame as a play wright, however rests on his four late plays-The Sea Gull,Uncle Vanya, The Three sisters and The Cherry Orchard. Chekhov died of tuberculosis at the age of forty- four.