Three Sisters 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.
Cover of first edition, published 1901 by Adolf Marks
Chekhov in a 1905 illustration.
Konstantin Stanislavski as Vershinin
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a great Russian writer and playwright. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
Chekhov in 1889
Portrait of Anton Chekhov by Isaac Levitan (1886)
Birth house of Anton Chekhov in Taganrog, Chekhova street, Russia
Young Chekhov in 1882