Ei fuit villa Ialtae in oppido maritimo, ubi sua maximi momenti dramata, Hortus ceraseus et Tres sorores, scripsit, et ad ipsam fere vitae finem habitabat, villa quae anno 1957 magistratum iussu museum facta est Čechoviense.
Natus est Antonius Čechov die 29 Ianuarii1860 prope mare Asoviense, oppido Taganrogii Russico. Pater, Paulus, (1825—1898) fuit mercator Taganrogii, mater, Eugenia, (1835—1919). Parentibus Antonii Čechov nati sunt liberi sex: Alexander (1855), Nicolaus (1858), Antonius (1860), Ioannes (1861), filia singularis Maria (1863), denique Michael (1865). Condicio familiae pecuniariae in egestate fuit. Religiositas acerba describitur, et pater Paulus filios suos horae canticae cottidie interesse cogebat. Anton vir simul modestus etiam receptus et festivus crescebat. In gymnasio interpretationibus satiricis notus erat. Eo in tempore Antonius cum fratribus suis theatrum Taganrogii frequentabat, et postea domo primas fabulas proprias scripsit.
Anno 1878, tum Antonius Čechov 18 annos natus fuit, pater suus corruit, quo Imperio Russico (1721—1917) ineunte mandato comprehensionis adaequavisset, ut familia cetera ex oppido in Moscuam fugit. Ab eo tempore, in Taganrogio, Antonius solitarius erat, domicilium conduxit. Anno 1879, post maturam autem, studium medicinaeUniversitate Caesarea Moscuensi inivit.
↑"Chekhov's art demands a theatre of mood" (Vsevolod Meyerhold, in Allen 2001:13); "A richer submerged life in the text is characteristic of a more profound drama of realism, one which depends less on the externals of presentation" (Styan 1981:84).
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