Anton Chekhov
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE Of the eighteen hundred and ninety letters published by Chekhov’s family I have chosen for translation these letters and passages from letters which best to illustrate Chekhov’s life, character and opinions. The brief memoir is abridged and adapted from the biographical sketch by his brother Mihail. At first the weather was fine and still. The thrushes were calling, and in the swamps close by something alive droned pitifully with a sound like blowing into an empty bottle.
A New Life Of Anton Chekhov
Many writers know about the narrative principle behind "Chekhov's gun." Author Laura Piper Lee examines "Chekhov's queer" and makes a case for writing casually queer characters (and other identities) in fiction. The brief memoir is abridged and adapted from the biographical sketch by his brother Mihail. In a serf belonging to a Russian nobleman purchased his freedom and the freedom of his family for 3, roubles, being at the rate of roubles a soul, with one daughter, Alexandra, thrown in for nothing. The Student
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov[a] (/ ˈtʃɛkɒf /; [3] Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов[b], IPA: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕexəf]; 29 January [c] – 15 July [d]) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. Simon Karlinsky, a professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literature at UC Berkeley who wrote authoritative volumes on Gogol, Nabokov and Chekhov and was an expert on homosexuality in pre-Soviet culture, died July 5 at his home in Kensington, Calif. He was Anton Chekhov
Other than that, I found nothing in Chekhov. If you're really interested in this stuff, I recommend reading Simon Karlinsky, who was an expert in Russia's history of homosexuality. He also said that Gogol was gay, and that there are mentions of homosexuality in his books. I haven't read Gogol, so I don't know much about that. Despite it being , in fiction today, a character is still by and large presumed straight, cisgendered, able-bodied, and white unless the reader is told otherwise due to our history of suppression and marginalization of any other identity. The fact that the straight, cis, able-bodied, white person is the default expectation, particularly in the minds of straight, cis, able-bodied, white readers, perpetuates that suppression and marginalization. Chekhov’s Queer
Simon Karlinsky, a professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literature at UC Berkeley who wrote authoritative volumes on Gogol, Nabokov and Chekhov and was an expert on homosexuality in pre. Apologies for the late letter. Tuesday was one of those days where several things went wrong in small, but mildly devastating ways that required a lot of constant, strained attention. 
Expert on history of homosexuality in Russia
Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and master of the modern short story. He described the Russian life of his time using a deceptively simple technique devoid of obtrusive literary devices, and he is regarded as the outstanding representative of the late 19th-century Russian realist school. .
LETTERS OF ANTON CHEKHOV TO HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Chekhov claimed Stanislaysky's interpretations had made “cry‐babies” out of his plays, but to call “The Cherry Orchard” a comedy is to be disingenuous. .
CHEKHOV IS A GAY ICON
The Student, a Short Story by Anton first the weather was fine and still. The thrushes were calling, and in the swamps close by something alive droned pitifully with a sound like blowing into an empty bottle. A snipe flew by, and the shot aimed at it rang out with a gay, resounding note in the spring air. But when it began to get dark in the forest a cold, penetrating wind blew. .