For 10 points, name this Russian playwright who penned The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard.
In one work by this author, a dying coffinmaker gives his violin to a fellow member of an orchestra. This author of "Rothschild's Fiddle" wrote about the escalation of a debate between a lawyer and a doctor into a fifteen- year confinement in "The Bet". The title animal is(*) shot in a work describing the affair between Nina and Trigorin, while in another work Lopakhin purchases Madame Ranevsky's estate. For 10 points, name this Russian playwright who penned The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard.
In one work by this author, a dying coffinmaker gives his violin to a fellow member of an orchestra.
Anton Pavlovich {Chekhov}