His one-man expedition to Sakhalin resulted in a research thesis, but he later turned to fiction.
His one-man expedition to Sakhalin resulted in a research thesis, but he later turned to fiction. His support of Alfred Dreyfus caused him to break with Suvorin's newspaper "New Time" before he turned to writing full-time, penning such long stories as "Steppe." However, he may be best known as a dramatist for writing such plays as Ivanov and The Seagull. For ten points, name this author of Uncle Vanya and creator of Lopakhin and the Ranevsky family in The Cherry Orchard.
His one-man expedition to Sakhalin resulted in a research thesis, but he later turned to fiction.
Anton Pavlovich {Chekhov}