Once, in his youth, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov inadvertently said that he would never marry, and if he married, he would like to live with his wife in different cities. It turned out that fate does not forgive such a slip of the tongue. At the end of her life, the illness chained the writer to Yalta, and his wife, the leading actress of the Moscow Art Theater Olga Leonidovna Knipper, continued to work in Moscow. Correspondence of two creative personalities is full of tenderness, humor and sadness. The play is not so much about the complexities of Chekhov's relationship with his wife, but about the woman, the actress, her talent, happiness, grief and love. The combination of authentic texts of letters and monologues of Chekhov's heroines - Arkadina, Nina Zarechnaya, Elena Andreevna, Ranevskaya, Masha - make it possible to understand and feel how creative people are intertwined with art.
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At the end of his life, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, weak health, was ill, and therefore had to live in Yalta. His wife, an actress, could not be with him: to quit the theater, to leave Moscow for her was unthinkable.
They wrote letters to each other - gentle, touching news of their ironic love: what are the only nicknames-appeals "dog angry, my doggy fierce", which the writer gave his wife!
And now she, Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhov, an actress, was left alone. In her luggage there are those roles she could play. Monologues of the strong spirit of women from immortal plays written by her great husband: from "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters", "Weddings", "Cherry Orchard" ...
She dreams of shining in the best Chekhovian roles - and she misses him, to her close and close husband, with whom she was distracted first by distance, and then by death, although she can not believe her female heart that this is forever: she still writes to him, To him, already dead ...
