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people are honoring the memory of the great writer along with the Russians today," Bernard Faivre d"Arcier, ex-director of the Avignon Theater Festival, said at the ceremony.

President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in the southern Russian city of Taganrog on Friday, where Chekhov was born on January 29, 1860, and laid flowers at the writer"s monument and visited the museum, a small house rented by Chekhov"s family.

Chekhov died of tuberculosis at the age of 44 in the German spa town of Badenweiler in 1904.

MOSCOW, January 29 (RIA Novosti)



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