Which Russian playwright and short-story master wrote the celebrated 1904 drama 'The Cherry Orchard', reflecting the economic decline of the Russian aristocracy?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: D. Anton Chekhov

  1. Step 1: A practicing physician who insisted "medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress", this author transformed modern dramatic realism through subtext and mood.
  2. Step 2: Anton Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchard' depicts Madame Ranevskaya's aristocratic family failing to prevent the auction of their ancestral estate, which is purchased by the son of a former serf, Lopakhin.
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Anton Chekhov
Why not the others: 'Maxim Gorky' Maxim Gorky was an active revolutionary writer who depicted the impoverished underclass in 'The Lower Depths' (1902); 'Nikolai Gogol' Nikolai Gogol was an early 19th-century satirist who wrote 'Dead Souls' and famous surreal tales like 'The Nose' and 'The Overcoat'; 'Alexander Ostrovsky' Alexander Ostrovsky was a 19th-century Russian dramatist focusing on the merchant class, best known for 'The Storm'.

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