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MEMORABLE DATES. A HUNDRED AND FORTY YEARS AGO, ON JANUARY 29, 1860, THE GREAT RUSSIAN WRITER ANTON CHEKHOV WAS BORN. ONE OF CHEKHOV'S CONTEMPORARIES REMARKED THAT IF RUSSIA SHOULD SOMEHOW VANISH, CHEKHOV'S STORIES COULD RESTORE EVERY LITTLE DETAIL OF THE COUNTRY. SOME 8,000 CHARACTERS INHABIT CHEKHOV'S 500 STORIES AND NOVELS. A SHREWD PSYCHOLOGIST, MASTER OF IMPLICATION WHO INTERWOVE HUMOUR WITH LYRICISM, CHEKHOV HAD A GREAT INFLUENCE ON RUSSIAN AND WORLD LITERATURE. ANTON CHEKHOV. PETERSBURG. 1889. PHOTO FROM THE ARCHIVES OF Sputnik Images. 84 - 17582.
26th january 2000
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