For 25 years of creativity - from the moment of graduation from high school in 1879 until his death in July 1904 - Chekhov created more than five hundred different works (short humorous stories, feuilletons, serious stories and novels, plays), many of which have become classics of world literature. Particular attention was drawn to the stories:
"The Steppe"
"A Boring Story"
"Duel"
"Chamber No. 6" (1892)
"The House with a Mezzanine" (1896)
"Dushechka"
"Popprigunya"
"The Story of an Unknown Man"
"The Men"
"The Man in the Case" (1897-98)
"In the Ravine"
"The Children's Village"
"Drama on the Hunt"
Plays:
"The Seagull" (1895)
"Uncle Vanya" (1899)
"Three Sisters" (1901-1903)
"The Cherry Orchard" (1903-1904)
In addition to literary and medical work Chekhov attached great importance to charitable activities in the field of assistance to the hungry, children, peasants, tuberculosis patients, was Commissioner of the Board of the Yalta Charity Society, organized fundraisers for the benefit of the needy and regularly published in newspapers texts on the situation of socially vulnerable groups in Russia.