Flournoy Eakin Miller (14 April 1885 – 6 June 1971), sometimes credited as F. E. Miller, was an African American entertainer, actor, lyricist, producer and playwright.
 Between about 1905 and 1932 he formed a popular comic duo, Miller and Lyles, with Aubrey Lyles.
 Described as "an innovator who advanced black comedy and entertainment significantly," and as "one of the seminal figures in the development of African American musical theater on Broadway", he wrote many successful vaudeville and Broadway shows, including the influential "Shuffle Along" (1921), as well as working on several all-black movies between the 1930s and 1950s.
Kasba (English: "The Town") is a 1991 Indian drama film written and directed by Kumar Shahani.
 It is based on the short story "In the Ravine" by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.
 The movie is an important work in the Indian Parallel Cinema movement which started in the early 1970s.
 It is one of the last films to be part of the movement as it died out by the early 1990s.
Madath Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair (born 9 August 1933), popularly known as MT, is an Indian author, screenplay writer and film director.
 He is a prolific and versatile writer in modern Malayalam literature, and is one of the masters of post-Independence Indian literature.
 He was born in Kudallur, a small village in the present day Palakkad district (Palghat), which was under the Malabar District in the Madras Presidency of the British Raj.
 He shot into fame at the age of 20 when, as a chemistry undergraduate, he won the prize for the best short story in Malayalam at World Short Story Competition conducted by "The New York Herald Tribune".
 His debut novel "Naalukettu" ("Ancestral Home"- translated to English as "The Legacy"), wrote at the age of 23, won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958.
 His other novels include "Manju" ("Mist"), "Kaalam" ("Time"), "Asuravithu" ("The Prodigal Son" - translated to English as "The Demon Seed") and "Randamoozham" ("The Second Turn").
 The deep emotional experiences of his early days have gone into the making of MT's novels.
 Most of his works are oriented towards the basic Malayalam family structure and culture and many of them were path-breaking in the history of Malayalam literature.
 His three seminal novels on life in the matriarchal family in Kerala are "Naalukettu", "Asuravithu", and "Kaalam".
 "Randamoozham", which retells the story of the "Mahabharatha" from the point of view of Bhimasena, is widely credited as his masterpiece.
The Cherry Orchard (Russian: "Вишнëвый сад" , "Vishnevyi sad " ) is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.
 Written in 1903, it was first published by "Znaniye" (Book Two, 1904), and came out as a separate edition later that year in Saint Petersburg, via A.F. Marks Publishers.
 It opened at the Moscow Art Theatre on 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Konstantin Stanislavski.
 Chekhov described the play as a comedy, with some elements of farce, though Stanislavski treated it as a tragedy.
 Since its first production, directors have contended with its dual nature.
 It is often identified as one of the three or four outstanding plays by Chekhov, along with "The Seagull", "Three Sisters", and "Uncle Vanya".
Klänge (German; "Sounds") is a book by the Russian expressionist artist Wassily Kandinsky.
 Published in an edition of 345 in Munich in late 1912, the work is a famous early example of an artist's book, containing both poems and woodcuts by the artist, forming two parallel strands, each involving a loose progression.
 One of three seminal books that Kandinsky published between 1911 and 1912 - the other two being "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" and "Der Blaue Reiter Almanac" that he edited with Franz Marc - "Klänge" was to have a direct and lasting influence on Expressionism, Dada and Russian Futurism.
Daniel J. Robbins (Brooklyn, New York, 1932 – 14 January 1995, Lebanon, New Hampshire) was as American art historian, art critic, and curator, who specialized in avant-garde 20th-century art and helped encourage the study of it.
 Robbins' area of scholarship was on the theoretical and philosophical origins of Cubism.
 His writings centered on the importance of artists such as Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Henri Le Fauconnier and Jacques Villon.
 He was a specialist in early Modernism, writing on Salon Cubists (the Section d'Or group) and championed contemporaries such as Louise Bourgeois and the Color Field painters.
 Art historian Peter Brooke referred to Robbins as "the great pioneer of the broader history of Cubism".
Battles in the Desert, or "Las batallas en el desierto", is a short story written by Mexican author José Emilio Pacheco.
 The short story was first published in the Saturday edition of the Uno Más Uno, a Mexican newspaper, on June 7, 1980, but was published as a short story by Era the following year.
 The short story is narrated by Carlos, as an adult, recounting his memories as a boy growing up in Mexico City in the late 1940s and 1950s.
 In particular, his experiences and the events that unfolded after falling in love with one of his classmate’s mother comprise the central narrative of the short novel.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов , ] ; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.
 His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.
 Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre.
 Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
Mikhail Mikhailovich Roshchin (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Ро́щин ; 10 February 1933 – 1 October 2010) was a Russian playwright, screenwriter and short story writer.
"At Home" (Russian: Дома , "Doma " ) is a 1887 short story by Anton Chekhov.

Question: In what year was the short story written by the Russian playwright who is referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre, written?
Answer: 1887