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Key facts
- Written by
- Anton Chekhov
- Characters
- Prozorov family: Olga Sergeyevna Prozorova Maria Sergeyevna Kulygina Irina Sergeyevna Prozorova Andrei Sergeyevich Prozorov
- Date premiered
- 1901 ( 1901 ) , Moscow
- Original language
- Russian
- Genre
- Drama
- Setting
- A provincial Russian garrison town
via Wikipedia infobox
Full text
Drei Schwestern – Anton Tschechov
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Encyclopedic overview
Chekhov in a 1905 illustration.
Three Sisters (Russian: Три сeстры́, romanized: Tri sestry) is a play by the Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was written in 1900 and first performed in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre. The play is often included on the shortlist of Chekhov's outstanding plays, along with The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Three Sisters” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.