FTP, identify this Russian author of The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard.
His early works include short plays like The Jubilee and The Tragedian in Spite of Himself, as well as stories collected in Motley Tales and Tales of Melpomene.  His stories include the story of the shopkeeper Tsybukin and his daughter-in-law Aksinya, "In the Ravine"; an 1889 work about Professor Nikolai Stepanovich, "A Dreary Story"; and a story written on his estate at Yalta, "The Lady with the Lapdog."  FTP, identify this Russian author of The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard.
His early works include short plays like The Jubilee and The Tragedian in Spite of Himself, as well as stories collected in Motley Tales and Tales of Melpomene.  
Anton Chekhov