Labels:daily | dialog box | door | earth | person | poster | school newspaper | tabloid OCR: Anton Chekhov(1860 1904) Fact Sheet Born: Tagarrog Russia Back kground: C hek hov was physician before turing his efforts to litera ture His plays and short stories accurately depict Russian life in the late 1800s Chek} hov traveled extensi ively u ta the Siberian penal calony that inspi ired his study f the prison system, The S Worl ks: Three Sisfers (1900 Anton Chekhov The (1903) Did you krow? Chekhov's plays are translated more often than those af any other Russian playwright. Chekhoy Shet Taganrog Background turnine pena colony