Anton Chekov was born in Taganrog, a port city in the Rostov Oblast of southern Russia, on January 29, 1860. He was the third child born to Yevgenia Yakovlevna Morozov and Pavel Yegorovitch. Chekov grew up in a loving environment with his five other siblings, despite financial difficulties. Chekov and his brothers worked vigorously to help their father run his shop. However, the children still managed to enjoy their childhood by participating in social activities such as fishing, tennis and visiting their grandfather in the countryside. He attended Moscow University in 1879 to study medicine and graduated in 1884. He practiced medicine for the rest of his life, pursued a career in writing, and a well-developed social life. In the words of Anton Chekov he described his career as “Medicine is [his] lawful wife and literature is [his] mistress. When [he] gets tired of one [he] spends the night with the other.” He continued to work to care for the sick and support his family until the insidious disease of tuberculosis ended his life on July 15, 1904. Chekov's family, childhood experiences, and the acquaintances he met growing up had a great influence in his future career as a writer. Chekov was able to use his positive and negative experiences to develop more natural and realistic plots for his characters to follow. For example, his grandfather was a serf who worked on the estate of Vladimir Grigorievitch Tchertokov before purchasing his freedom from serfdom in 1841. Servant characters can be seen in his production of The Cherry Orchard. His father was a grocer who had to close his shop due to financial ruin in 1867. Furthermore, the house and home of the Yegorovitch family...... middle of paper ...... chase and become owners of the entire heritage. It can be assumed that an actor comes to love Chekov because his works move away from traditional plot concepts of good versus evil to produce more natural, complex, and relatable stories. After examining the life of Mr. Anton Chekov and reading The Cherry Orchard, it becomes apparent how easy it is to become attached to and understand the points of view of all of his characters. Chekov mastered the use of mood, inaction, and current national news to reveal the internal psychology of his characters. His works did not seek to offend or impose moral judgments on audience members in attendance, rather he used his works to demonstrate current struggles existing in social, political and personal contexts that must be overcome to successfully move forward towards a better and more positive. future.