Alexander Chekhov is an outcast and a favorite

The eldest son in the family of Pavel Egorych and Eugenia Chekhov, Alexander Chekhov, was born in the middle of the nineteenth century, on August 22, 1855. He signed his works with the pseudonym A. Sedoy.

His prototype was Misail Poloznev in Anton Chekhov's novel My Life. Like Alexander, Misail challenges his behavior to the circle in which he lives. If one looks at Alexander's life impartially, even for the end of the nineteenth century, who has seen all Russian reality, it seems unusual.

Chekhov, Aleksandr Pavlovich: Biography

After studying in the Taganrog gymnasium and receiving a silver medal, he enters the Moscow University at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, writes stories and prints in popular magazines. By the way, it is the brother of the future brilliant writer Anton Chekhov who is responsible for his literary activity. Alexander attaches Anton to the magazine, and he returns to Taganrog, where his father fled, fleeing from creditors.

In his hometown Chekhov Alexander Pavlovich serves in customs, thereby causing bewilderment among family members. He dreams of family, of clean, kind relations, adores children and at the same time twice marries women, which do not correspond to his dreams.

His first wife was Anna Sokolnikova, who was eight years older than him and had three children and a prohibition from the church (because she was divorced) for a second marriage. But this did not bother her, the woman had free views of life.

The second wife was Natalya Ipatieva, who served as his governess, who had a sick mother and sister with starving children, who unsuccessfully married the artist Putyatin.

Alexander Chekhov had to take care of all this.

Childhood

Parents were religious people, strict morals. They did not openly show their love, especially their father. Alexander grew up as a difficult child, capricious and capricious. After him Nikolay was born - a painful, scrofulous child. Feeling that she is pregnant again, Yevgenia Yakovlevna gives Alexander to her younger sister indefinitely for education, and herself in the first half of 1859 goes to a pilgrimage to the monasteries.

Anton Pavlovich after so many prayers of the mother became a reward for the parents, and Alexander Chekhov was out of the house. Although Fedosya Yakovlevna (the younger sister of the mother) lived next door, the boy still felt cut off from his family.

In the shop

In the story of Chekhov, the elder, about the holidays at his grandparents describes in detail his childhood and Anton. The way they had to deny themselves in the usual pastime for children. Their peers rested after the gymnasium, went to each other's houses, played in the courtyard of the house, and the brothers were forced to "stick out" in the father's shop, selling the goods. Pavel Egorovich believed that this would discipline them and teach them life, but the boys hated the shop. Chekhov in the story "Three Years" describes in detail his childhood and the feelings that he experienced.

Chekhov Alexander Pavlovich for his short life in what only adventures did not get involved. He was a vegetarian, was fond of photography, rode a bicycle, studied foreign languages, loved birds. Forty birds lived in his room, freely circling in it, then he also bred elite chickens, made watches from moss, cooked linoleum from newspapers, added milk to the milk ...

Participated in public activities, built hospitals for alcoholics (being an alcoholic himself) and shelters for the mentally ill.

Conclusion, the decline of life

381 letter from his elder brother to Anton was printed. Alexander realized early on that literature is not his path, but in letters to his brother he is free, he writes about everything he thinks about, doing it accurately and with talent. Letters, in turn, are a historical value for all people not indifferent to the great writer A. P. Chekhov and his family.

Anton's death was a tremendous shock to Alexander. Alexander Chekhov dedicated his stories about childhood to his brother. Alexander himself dies nine years after Anton. He died in 1913.

At one time he enjoyed popularity with his compatriots not only for his works of art, but also for his works devoted to the fight against alcoholism, the treatment of the mentally ill in Petersburg and for many other works.

His son from his second marriage, Mikhail Chekhov, became a famous Hollywood actor who instilled the Stanislavsky system in America. Mikhail idolized his father, his erudition, his knowledge not only in literature, but also in medicine, chemistry and even in matters of philosophy.

Alexander Chekhov suffered many tests in his life, it seemed that he should bend from failures and adversities, but he was a large, lively man, extravagant, with a loud voice that children and animals adored.