| It is not an accident that in Soviet Russia, after the revolution, poetry died. Before the revolution Russia had given the greatest poets and novelists that the world has ever known, in fact incomparable. No other country can compete. Who can compete with Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Turgenev? Who can compete with these giants? No other country has produced such great artists. If one has to decide on ten great novelists of the world, then five will be Russians – but pre-revolution... --Osho The White Lotus, ch. 4 |
Chekhov, Anton
1860-1904 44 years
1860-1904 44 years
Russian playwright, short story writer...
The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Uncle
Vanya are some of his many works
died of TB, buried in Moscow
The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Uncle
Vanya are some of his many works
died of TB, buried in Moscow
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