Anton Chekhov, a portrait by his brother Nicholas Chekhov. Anton, the writer of plays and short stories, was the third son of a poor grocer from Taganrog on the Black Sea. Nicholas, two years older, was born in 1858 and died in 1889. His talent as a painter was dissipated in a wild and unreliable life of excess. The portrait is reproduced from “A New Life of Chekhov,” by Ronald Hingley.
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Press, 18 September 1976, Page 13
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71Anton Chekhov, a portrait by his brother Nicholas Chekhov. Anton, the writer of plays and short stories, was the third son of a poor grocer from Taganrog on the Black Sea. Nicholas, two years older, was born in 1858 and died in 1889. His talent as a painter was dissipated in a wild and unreliable life of excess. The portrait is reproduced from “A New Life of Chekhov,” by Ronald Hingley. Press, 18 September 1976, Page 13
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