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ANTON CHEKHOV
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1861 - Emancipation Edict ends serfdom

but keeps peasants tied to the land
through continuing labor obligations;
rapid industrialization leads to growth of a
small working class and the spread of
revolutionary ideas.

1864-65 - Kazakh steppes and Central

Asian Muslim states annexed. According to IMDB, only
Shakespeare outranks
1877-78 - Russian-Turkish War sees Chekhov with the amount
Russia seize land from Ottoman Empire of movies adaptations.
in the Caucasus and establish client
Although Anton Chekhov
states in the Balkans.
became a physician he
often treated patients for
1897 - Marxist Social Democratic Party
free and earned money
founded, and in 1903 splits into
Menshevik and more radical Bolshevik
factions.
1904-05 - Russian expansion in
“The role of the artist
Manchuria leads to war with Japan -
and the 1905 revolution, which is to ask questions,
forced Tsar Nicholas II to grant a
constitution and establish a not answer them.” -
parliament, the Duma.
Anton Chekhov
“Any idiot can face a crisis;
it's this day-to-day living
that wears you out.” - Anton
Chekhov

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