At the time of his death, he had authored sixteen plays, a novel, five novellas, countless letters, and over 200 short stories. He contracted tuberculosis as a young man, and it eventually claimed his life in 1904. Though a longtime bachelor, he finally married Olga Knipper in 1901. In later years, he lived on a farm where he treated local peasants and dedicated his dwindling energy towards tending to his farmland. At 28, he won the Pushkin Prize, marking a major stepping stone in his career.
He proceeded to work as a doctor for most of his literary career, writing short stories and plays in his free time to pay for tuition and to support his family, for whom he was now the sole breadwinner. In 1879, he moved to Moscow and completed his degree in medicine. When the family fled to Moscow in 1876 because the father faced debtors’ prison, Anton stayed behind and finished his schooling. His parents were struggling grocers and, while his mother was kind, his father was often abusive. Characteristic of his stories and plays, Chekhov ends the short story on an ambiguous note as the lawyer emerges from his confinement with a new understanding of the world and a complete rejection of materiality.Anton Chekhov was born to a large family in Taganrog, southern Russia. In the meantime, the banker’s wealth begins to dwindle and he must make a rash decision in order to save his money. Over the course of those fifteen years, the lawyer fervently reads and studies. The lawyer agrees to stay isolated in a lodge in the banker’s garden for fifteen years. The two debate and make a bet: if the lawyer can live in solitary confinement, the banker will give him two million rubles. The younger lawyer counters that to live under any circumstance is always better than death. During a dinner party in November 1870, a wealthy banker claims that capital punishment is more humane than life imprisonment. Petersburg-based newspaper Novoye Vremya (Новое время), Anton Chekhov’s “The Bet” (“Пари”) is a short story about a bet made between a banker and a lawyer. First published in an 1889 edition of the St.
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