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One hundred years ago, on July 15, Russia's most famous physician, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, died of tuberculosis at 44 years of age in Badenweiler, Germany. His body was shipped to Moscow by train in a refrigerated car marked "For Oysters." At the Novodevichy cemetery, Maxim Gorky and Fyodor Chaliapin joined a huge crowd of mourners for a farewell to their Antosha.

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View larger version (99K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Chekhov's Grave in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow. Photograph by Robert S. Schwartz, M.D.

 
Chekhov's remarkable life was devoted to medicine and consumed by literature. In a letter to a friend, he wrote, "Medicine is my lawful . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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