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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, the Russian playwriter and novelist was born on January 29, 1860.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov

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An explanation of how to solve this manually:

First, notice the top:

The first subtrahend must be 87. This makes A=3, and since 116 = 29×4 we must have C=1 and H=0.

What could N be?

At least 5, since E is at least 2, so the first result is at least 150.
It can't be 8 or 9, because 29×8 = 232 which would force H=C.
It also can't be 6, because 10k+O and 29×O have the same parity, so they can't subtract to 17.

First case:

N=5. O must be 7 to get 7-3=4, but this makes the result from subtracting 29×T 21. Since H=0, 29×T must end in 9, but then it must be 29, which is too short.

Second case:

N=7. V=4, and O must be 5 to get 5-5=0. Now 29×T has to end in 4 for 16 to be passed down, so T=6. Now we can finally determine that the first subtraction result is 222, and E=9 and K=2 follow immediately from that.

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