The Seagull Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The best-selling official for Novel that everybody is looking for. The Seagull is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, authored within 1895 as well as created in 1896. The Seagull is usually regarded as the first of his 4 major plays. It dramatizes the artistic and romantic conflicts between 4 characters: the popular middlebrow story writer Boris Trigori...