Three sisters anton chekhov pdf Continue For the musical written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern, see Three Sisters (musical). Trish is redirecting here. For the Czech punk rock band, see Tři forests. For opera by Péter Eötvös, see Tri forestry (opera). Three SistersCover of first edition, published in 1901 by Adolf MarksWritten by Anton TchekhovCharactersProzorov family: Olga romanized: Tri forestry) is a work by the Russian writer and ,'لри сeстрل :Sergeyevna Prozorova Maria Sergeyevna Kulygina Irina Sergeyevna Prozorova Andrei Sergeyevich Prozorov Date premiered 1901 (1901), MoscowOxin language RussianGenreDramaSettingA provincial Russian garrison city Chekhov in a 1905 illustration. Three Sisters (Russian playwright Anton Tchekhov. It was written in 1900 and first presented in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre. The work is sometimes included in Chekhov's short list of outstanding works, along with Cherry Orchard, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya. [1] Characters Prozorovs Olga Sergeyevna Prozorova (Olga) - The larger of the three sisters, is the matriarchal figure of the Prozorov family, although at the beginning of the work she is only 28 years old. Olga is a high school teacher, where she often fills in as principal whenever the principal is absent. Olga is a spinster and at one point tells Irina that she would marry any man, even an old man if he had asked her. Olga is very maternal even in the elderly servants, holding the elderly nurse/detainee Anfisa, long after she has ceased to be useful. When Olga reluctantly takes on the role of director permanently, she takes anfisa with her to escape the clutches of heartless Natasha. Maria Sergeyevna Kulygina (Masha) - The middle sister, is 23 at the beginning of the project. She married her husband, Kuligin, when she was 18 and just left school. When the play opens he is disappointed in the marriage and falls completely in love with the idealistic Lieutenant Colonel Vershinin. They're starting a secret case. When she is carried away, she is crushed, but returns to life with her husband, who accepts her back despite knowing what she has done. She has a brief temperament, which is often observed throughout the game, and is the sister who disapproves of most of Natasha. On stage, her immediacy often serves as a tonic to melodrama, and her spirit appears as heroic. Her vitality provides most of the work surprisingly plenty of humor. He trained as a concert pianist. Irina Sergeyevna Prozorova - The younger sister, is 20 at the beginning of the project. It's her nominal day at the beginning of the play, and although she insists she's an adult, she's still enchanted by things like a rotating blouse fedochik brought her. The only desire is to return to Moscow, which they left eleven years before the project began. She thinks she's going to find her true love in. In. But when it becomes clear that he is not going to Moscow, he agrees to marry Baron Tusenbach, whom he admires but does not love. She gets her teaching degree and plans to leave with the Baron, but Soloni shot and killed him in a pointless duel. She decides to leave anyway and devote her life to work and service. Andrei Sergeievic Prozov (Andrei) – The brother of the three brothers. In Act I, he is a young man who is on a fast track to being a professor in Moscow. In Act II, Andrei still yearns for his old days as a bachelor dreaming of life in Moscow, but is now, because of the poor conception of his marriage to Natasha, stuck in a provincial town with a baby and a job as secretary of the County Council. In Act III, his debts have risen to 35,000 rubles and he is forced to mortgage the house, but he does not tell his sisters or give them any shares in the family home. Act IV finds Andrei a pathetic shell of his former self, now the father of two. He acknowledges that it is a failure and laughed at the city for being a member of the village council whose president, Protopopov, cheats on him. Natalia Ivanovna (Natasha) - Andrei's love interest at the start of the project, later his wife. She begins the play as a clumsy young woman who dresses badly and hides her true nature. A lot of fun is made from her ill-made green belt by the sisters, and she explodes into tears. She obviously doesn't have a family of her own, and the reader never learns her maiden name. Act II finds a very different Natasha. She has become bossy and is using her relationship with Andrei as a way to manipulate the sisters to do what she wants. He has started a case with Protopov, the head of the local council (which he has never seen), and Andrei's cuckolds almost blatantly. In Act III, she has become even more controlling, facing Olga head for conservation for Anfisa, the elderly, loyal servant, whom she commands to stand in her presence, and throwing temper nerves when she doesn't get her way. Act IV finds that she has inherited control of the house from her weak, vacillating husband, leaving the sisters dependent on her, and, like the châtelaine, plans to radically change the reasons for her liking. It can be argued that the vicious, manipulative, self-absorbed Natasha, who cares about no one but her children, Bobbik and Sophia, on whom she is fatuously, is the complete winner until the end of the play. Fyodor Ingyich Kulygin - Masha's older husband and Latin teacher in high school. Kulygin is a jovial, kindly man, who really loves his wife, and although she is very aware of her infidelity. In the first act she seems almost silly, giving Irina a gift he has already given her, and joking around with the doctor to make fun of Natasha, but it starts to grow more and more sympathetic as Massa's case unfolds. During the fire in Act 3, he confesses to Olga Olga they could have married her - the fact that the two would probably be very happy together is hinted at many times during the game. Throughout the play, often in the most serious moments, he often tries to make the other characters laugh to relieve tension, and while that doesn't always work, he is able to give his wife solace through humor in her darkest hour at the climax of the play. At the end of the play, though knowing what Masha had done, he takes her back and accepts her failures. Soldiers Konstantin Stanislavski as Vershinin Aleksandr Ignatyevich Vershinin - Lieutenant Colonel ordering artillery battery, Vershinin is a true philosopher. He knew the girls' father in Moscow and they talk about how when they were little they called him Lovesick Major. During the game, despite being married, he enters an affair with Masha, but has to finish it when the battery is transferred. He often mentions how his wife regularly attempts suicide (and has two daughters), but seems not to care. His first act speech about the hope he has for culture speaks directly to Masha's melancholy heart, and, as soon as he hears it, declares I'm staying for lunch. Baron Nikolaj Lvovich Tusenbach - A lieutenant in the army and not considered handsome, Tujenbach often tries to impress Irina, whom he has loved for five years. She quits the army to go to work in an attempt to impress her. He is repeatedly mocked by Solyony and between Acts III and IV, he retaliates and urges Solyony to declare a duel. Killed in the duel, the purpose of his union and Irina is sad. Personal Captain Vasily Vasilyevich Solyony - A captain in the army, Solyony is a social misfit and a rather modern kind of antihero. He's in love with Irina and he's trying to put the Baron down to look better, but Irina finds him unsying and unattractive. He spends most of his time taunting the Baron, who is the closest thing he has to a friend, and ends up killing him in a pointless duel. He is said to have a remarkable resemblance to the poet Lermontov in both face and personality, often quoting him. He always carries a small bottle of perfume which he often (almost pathologically) sprinkles his hands and body with; later it is revealed that he is doing it to mask the smell of the bodies on him. Ivan Romanovich Chebutykin - Sixty years old and an army doctor, Chebutykin starts out as a fun, eccentric old man who exults in his place as a family friend and dedicates to Irina the expensive gift of a samovar. Later in the III, while drunk, suffers from an existential crisis and reveals to everyone about the case of Natasha and Protopov. In Act IV, however, he seems to have come to terms with his judgment or may have been violated by it. She loved the mother of the brothers (whose name is never mentioned), but was married. Alexei Petrovic Fediek - A A Fedotik hangs around the house and tries to express his love to Irina, buying her many gifts. He is also an amateur photographer, and takes photos of the team and Irina. In Act III, he loses all his possessions in the fire, but retains his joyous nature. Vladimir Karlovich Rode - Another sub-lieutenant, Rode is a drill coach in high school. Other Nerapont - Door-guard at the offices of the local council, Nerapont is an old man with partial hearing loss.