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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
Wikidata facts
- Author
- Anton Chekhov
- Genre
- drama
- Depicts
- Anton Chekhov
- Narrative location
- Russia
- Image
- Three Sisters cover 1901.jpg
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- publication date
- 1901-00-00
- language of work or name
- Russian
- Commons category
- Three Sisters (Chekhov)
- inception
- 1900-00-00
- location of first performance
- Moscow Art Theatre
- date of first performance
- 1901-01-31
- title
- Три сестры
- copyright status
- public domain
- different from
- Tri sestry
- form of creative work
- play
- first line
- Отец умер ровно год назад, как раз в этот день, пятого мая, в твои именины, Ирина.
- work available at URL
- www.projekt-gutenberg.org/cechov/3schwest/3schwest.html
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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.