Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897, and first produced in 1899 by the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski.
Konstantin Stanislavski as Astrov in the Moscow Art Theatre production in 1899
Uncle Vanya at the Moscow Art Theatre (1899), Act III
Scene from Act I, Moscow Art Theatre, 1899
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