also Che·kov(chĕkˈôf, -ŏf, -ŏv, chyĕˈᴋʜəf), Anton Pavlovich 1860-1904.
Russian writer whose dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and stories, including “A Dreary Story” (1889), concern the inability of humans to communicate with one another.