The Cherry Orchard is the last play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, written in 1903 and first published by Znaniye before appearing as a separate edition later that year in Saint Petersburg. It opened on 17 January 1904 at the Moscow Art Theatre in a production directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, and it is often identified as one of Chekhov's four outstanding plays alongside The Seagull, Three Sisters, and Uncle Vanya.
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Year Created MediumChekhov described the play as a comedy; Stanislavski's original 1904 production instead treated it as a tragedy, a tension the article notes has never fully resolved. LocationRural Russia, aristocratic family estate, fictional setting 1 Medium
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Written by Anton Chekhov, 1904.
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1904 play by Anton Chekhov.
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Chekhov's plays are grouped under the atlas's existing cross-medium Realism movement entity, matching the house convention already live on Ibsen and Daumier.
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Written in 1903, it was first published by Znaniye
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Chekhov described the play as a comedy, with some elements of farce, though Stanislavski treated it as a tragedy.
Plot, Act 1
The play opens on a May day in the nursery of Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya's home in the provinces of Russia, at the start of the 20th century.
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The Cherry Orchard (Russian: Вишнёвый сад, romanized: Vishnyovyi sad) is the last play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first published by Znaniye (Book Two, 1904), and it appeared as a separate edition later that year in Saint Petersburg via A.F.
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The Cherry Orchard (Russian: Вишнёвый сад, romanized: Vishnyovyi sad) is the last play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first published by Znaniye (Book Two, 1904), and it appeared as a separate edi
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The Cherry Orchard (Russian: Вишнёвый сад, romanized: Vishnyovyi sad) is the last play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.
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