1. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904)

2. Russian playwright and short-story writer; wrote more than 200 stories and close to a dozen plays
b in Taganrog, southern Russia, grandson of a serf
a doctor ("Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.")
d in Germany of tuberculosis

3. Three Sisters (Три сeстры), written in 1900 and premiered in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre

4. one of Chekhov’s four classic plays, along with The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya
four acts, covering three years in the lives of the Prozorov family, including the sisters Olga, Masha, and Irina
as an example of Chekhov’s pioneering work in theatrical Modernism, the play was received hesitantly by contemporary audiences

5. scene from a 1940 production of Three Sisters at the Moscow Art Theatre

6. scene from a 2017 West End production of Three Sisters by Moscow’s Sovremennik Theatre

7. "To Moscow! To Moscow! To Moscow!"