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16 unusual facts about Anton Chekhov


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The text also quotes a lengthy passage about the Gilyak people from the travel diary Sakhalin Island (1893-94) by Anton Chekhov.

Friedrich Erismann

At the University of Moscow, one of his students was playwright Anton Chekhov.

Gordon Edelstein

His recent productions of Arthur Miller’s The Price and Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (which he also adapted) were on numerous best of 2007 lists including the Wall Street Journal.

Huang Chunming

Two other important influences were an anthology of short stories by Shen Congwen and a Chinese translation of stories by Anton Chekhov.

Nicolas Stemann

The first time he received national attention was through the production of his Trilogy of Terror in 1997 at Kampnagel in Hamburg and Hoftheater Gostner in Nuremberg (Antigone by Sophocles, The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner).

Oren Jacoby

Jacoby also wrote, produced and directed “The Return Ticket”, adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov; "The Last Girl on Earth", “Ghosts of the Bayou”; “Idols of the Game”, featuring Michael Jordan;

Ru Long

He was most notable for being one of the main translators into Chinese of the works of the Russian novelist Anton Chekhov.

Sakura no Sono

The drama club of Oka Academy an all girl high school put on the play The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov for the anniversary of the school's founding.

Tarragon Theatre

It has championed the work of Canadian playwrights David French, Michel Tremblay, Judith Thompson, Jason Sherman, Michael Healey and others, as well as productions of plays by canonical playwrights such as Anton Chekhov and August Strindberg.

The Android Invasion

This is a conflation of the dormouse's story in chapter seven of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Anton Chekhov's play, Three Sisters.

The Lottery Ticket

:Note: Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) has also written a short story called The Lottery Ticket.

The Nash Airflyte Theater

They series featured original teleplays and adaptations of works by famous writers, including Anton Chekhov and O.Henry.

Theatre Smith-Gilmour

Currently the company is in their self-proclaimed "Chekhov Cycle".

WaterTower Theatre

It has produced 5 world premieres including the musicals Song of Motherhood and Blind Lemon: Prince of Country Blues, and the plays Free Fall (with Sandy Duncan), Baptized to the Bone by Dave Johnson, and A Country Life, Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin’s southern adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

Yuasa Yoshiko

After their return to Japan and Nakajo remarried, Yuasa continued with her translation work of Russian authors, especially the works of Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekhov and Samuil Marshak.

Yuny railway station

Russian poet Maximilian Voloshin mentions the station Grafskiy Pavilion in his diary and reports that there was a summer residence here at which, in May 1926, Maxim Gorky and Anton Chekhov met.


Abramtsevo Colony

One building, the main "manor," is said to have been the model for the estate in which Anton Chekhov set The Cherry Orchard.

Adélaïde Leroux

While in college, she played lead roles in plays such as Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.

Alessandro Haber

He is also a distinguished theatre actor, having performed amongst others in Orgia by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, L'avaro by Molière, Zio Vania by Anton Chekhov, Dialogo by Natalia Ginzburg and Arlecchino by Carlo Goldoni.

Amanda Ryan

Ryan's stage career includes credits in British productions of Patrick Marber's Closer, Simon Gray's Otherwise Engaged, Chekhov's The Wood Demon and in 2008 the part of Cathy in an adaptation of Wuthering Heights by April De Angelis .

An Evening of Long Goodbyes

Charles is shocked to learn that Bel is planning a trip to Chekhov's home town in Russia to study The Cherry Orchard, her favorite play.

Anneke von der Lippe

She graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 1988, and has since acted both at Det Norske Teatret (the Norwegian Theater) and at Nationaltheatret (the National Theatre), in roles such as "Nora" in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, "Masja" in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, and "Gwendolen Fairfax" in Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest.

Ataol Behramoğlu

During this period, his translations were published in Turkey; Alexander Pushkin’s Collected Novels and Short Stories (two volumes); The short stories of Maxim Gorky plays of Anton Chekhov.

Birth house of Anton Chekhov

The Birth house of Anton Chekhov is the place in Taganrog, Russia, where the famous writer Anton Chekhov was born.

Carlo Cecchi

In 1971, he directed in Florence a theatre cooperative playing works by Shakespeare, Mayakovsky, Brecht, Chekhov, and Molière.

Elena-Cristina Marchisano

Elena-Cristina Marchisano has performed in plays by Anton Chekhov, William Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Molière, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, among others.

Googie Withers

Withers starred in a number of stage plays, including Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, Desire of the Moth, The First 400 Years (with Keith Michell), Beekman Place (for which she also designed the set), The Kingfisher, Stardust, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Wilde's An Ideal Husband for the Melbourne Theatre Company; both productions toured Australia.

Group theatre of Kolkata

In 1950s and 1960s, many critically acclaimed productions were staged, which used international literature including the works of Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Ibsen and Bertolt Brecht.

Isaac Yakovlevich Pavlovsky

Isaac Yakovlevich Pavlovsky was born in 1853 in the city of Taganrog, friend of Anton Chekhov, studied at Taganrog's Boys Gymnasium, was an activist at the Taganrog revolutionary circle and was arrested and tried at the so-called Trial of the 193.

Last Summer in the Hamptons

The film explores the dark underbelly of the family (with metaphorical help from Anton Chekhov, Aeschylus, and Tennessee Williams) as Oona attempts to attach herself to them and their theatrical endeavors as she seeks to leave Hollywood and embark on a stage career.

Malakhovka, Moscow Oblast

By the end of the 19th century, the settlement was inhabited by such renowned representatives of Russian arts and literature as Anton Chekhov, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin, and Feodor Chaliapin.

Maria Heiskanen

She played in Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern and in Riksteatern where she for example performed the role of Masja in Anton Chekhovs The Seagull (2008) directed by Lars Norén.

Mariinskaya Gymnasium

Among the students were such eminent people as the People's Artist of the USSR Faina Ranevskaya, artist Seraphima Blonskaya, poets Sophia Parnok and Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya, an active member of Narodnaya Volya organization Nadezhda Sigida (Malaksiano), Anton Chekhov’s sister Maria.

Mark Greenstreet

First and foremost a stage actor, Greenstreet played many of the great leading roles from the works of Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen to Orton, Wilde and Coward in the UK and around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.

Old Tote Theatre Company

The University contributed six thousand pounds to convert the building into a theatre and its debut production, which opened on 2 February 1963, was a highly successful production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, starring Sophie Stewart and her husband Ellis Irving, with Gordon Chater as Yepihodov, John Bell as Trefimov and Ron Haddrick as Gayev, which ran for almost two months.

Roy Marsden

In the early 1960s, Marsden worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and began to accumulate an extensive list of theatrical credits that include everything from Anton Chekhov and Henrik Ibsen to contemporary Soviet playwright Alexander Vampilov.

Saadat Hasan Manto

He started his literary career translating works of literary giants, such as Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde and Russian writers such as Chekhov and Gorky.

Taganrog Museum of Art

Renowned playwright and short-story writer Anton Chekhov played a major role in establishing the collection of his home city through his connections in St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and his friends like Mark Antokolski etc.

The English Review

In addition to continuing to print works by Conrad, Lawrence, and Wells, authors such as Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekhov, Hermann Hesse, Aldous Huxley, Katherine Mansfield, Bertrand Russell, G. B. Shaw, Ivan Turgenev, and William Butler Yeats now appeared in the magazine's pages.

Trisha Ray

Through her father's theatre, she got to study the works of Anton Chekhov, Bertolt Brecht, Rabindranath Tagore, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde, Badal Sarkar at a very young age.

Truus van Aalten

Her claim to be related to Anton Chekhov was true, but she also loved to spin the most amazing yarns about her early life: she was close to Tsar Nicholas II, had met Rasputin and had fled the Revolution disguised as a mute peasant woman, hiding her jewellery in her mouth.

Tverskoy Boulevard

Many Russian writers described Tverskoy Boulevard in their books, for example Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Bunin, Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Bulgakov.

Valka Town Theatre

Today the theatre’s repertoire consists of the world’s drama classics including Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Jean Cocteau, Latvian plays by dramatists Rūdolfs Blaumanis, Jānis Rainis, and Agita Dragūna.

Walter Connolly

Connolly was a successful stage actor who appeared in twenty-two Broadway productions between 1916 and 1935, notably revivals of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.