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  1. Characters in the Play
  2. Act I
  3. Act II
  4. Act III
  5. Act IV
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The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett

free · 18,071 words · ~1 h read · first published 1904

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Characters in the Play

  • Madame Ranevsky (Lyubov Andreyevna) (the owner of the Cherry Orchard)

  • Anya (her daughter, aged 17)

  • Varya (her adopted daughter, aged 24)

  • Gaev (Leonid Andreyevitch) (brother of Madame Ranevsky)

  • Lopahin (Yermolay Alexeyevitch) (a Merchant)

  • Trofimov (Pyotr Sergeyevitch) (a Student)

  • Semyonov-Pishtchik (a Landowner)

  • Charlotta Ivanovna (a Governess)

  • Epihodov (Semyon Pantaleyevitch) (a Clerk)

  • Dunyasha (a Maid)

  • Firs (an old Valet, aged 87)

  • Yasha (a young Valet)

  • A Vagrant

  • The Station Master

  • A Post-Office Clerk

  • Visitors, Servants

The action takes place on the estate of Madame Ranevsky.

Act I

A room, which has always been called the nursery. One of the doors leads into Anya’s room. Dawn, sun rises during the scene. May, the cherry trees in flower, but it is cold in the garden with the frost of early morning. Windows closed.

restoring your place…

fetching the rest…

More by Anton Chekhov

  • Short Fiction
    Nothing much happens and somehow everything does. A woman with a little dog at a seaside resort, a man realizing his life went wrong over gooseberries.
  • The Duel
    You spend most of it wanting to shake Laevsky, this lazy, self-excusing man rotting in a Black Sea town, while von Koren coldly argues he'd be better off dead. Then Chekhov quietly turns it, and you come out gentler about people, including yourself.
  • The Seagull
    You watch Konstantin’s wounded ambition, Nina’s hunger for the stage, and Arkadina’s brittle charm collide around a disastrous play and a country estate. It’s funny in the way awkward people can be funny, then quietly painful, especially if you like drama that lets everyone misunderstand one another in painfully recognizable ways.

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The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett. The text is in the US public domain, from the Standard Ebooks edition. Served from our own copy; read on their site for the full edition with images and typography.

First published in 1904.

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