Sakhalin Island
Chekhov decided in 1890 to visit Sakhalin Island in the Pacific, a place where Russian criminals had been exiled since 1857, partly due to a debt he had with medicine that would serve as the basis for his...
CHEJOV, Anton Pavlovich (a.k.a. CHEKOV, TSCHECHOW)
A Woman's Kingdom
Anna Akimovna, a factory owner in a Russian province, finds herself during the Christmas holidays caught between the nostalgia of her childhood, when she did not yet enjoy prosperity, and her longing to...
Uncle Vanya
First performed by the Moscow Art Theater in 1899, Uncle Vanya is one of Chekhov’s greatest plays and a cornerstone of the theatrical repertoire. Structurally compact and deeply psychological, it stands...