![]() Likewise, in Chekhov's household,there was much discontentment of the submissive mother and sixchildren who was subject to harsh and oppressive patriarchal rule.Chekhov's father forced Anton and his two older brothers to toil inthe shop while he went off devoting himself to personal interests.One such interest was religion - he was somewhat of a fanatic.Chekhov's father's authoritarian rule during his childhood promptedhim to later reflect: "Despotism and lies have spoiled our youth tosuch a degree that it is loathsome and terrible to recall it." The hunger and oppression that accompaniedpoverty incited peasant revolts. Although Czar Alexander II was"determined to bring at least a ray of light into the darkness" andthe use of serfs as property to be sold, gambled or used ascollateral was abolished, the reality of serfs was still poverty, asthey did not own the land. The system of serfdom having beenabolished only a year after Chekhov was born, the country was vastlymired in medieval conditions. Chekhov's family life during these early years reflected thepolitical situation in Russia. The young Chekhov attended aschool for Greek boys as well as a grammar school between the years1867-79. ![]() ![]() Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born to poverty on January 29,1860 inTaganrog, a Russian mercantile city on the coast of the Black Sea.His mother was the daughter of a cloth merchant, his father was agrocer and his grandfather was a serf. ![]()
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