Williams ' writings include mention of some of the poets and writers he most admired in his early years: Hart Crane, Anton Chekhov ( from the age of ten ), William Shakespeare, D. H. Lawrence, August Strindberg, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Emily Dickinson.

* A Journey to Sakhalin ( 1895 ), by Anton Chekhov, including:

At 24 years of age, Mao Dun was already renowned as a novelist by the community in general, and in 1920, he and a group of young writers took over the magazine Xiaoshuo Yuebao ( 小说月报 ), which translated means " fiction monthly ", to publish literature by western authors, such as Tolstoy, Chekhov, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Byron, Keats, Shaw, etc., and make new theories of literature better known.

One of Hitchcock's characteristic innocent-person-pursued-by-the-police evasions ensues, as Dr. Petersen and the impostor ( who now calls himself ' John Brown ') travel by train to Rochester, to meet Dr. Brulov ( Michael Chekhov ), who had been Dr. Petersen's teacher and mentor.

* Anton Chekhov ( 1860 – 1904 ), Russian writer

* Maria ( Pavlovna ) Chekhova ( 1863 – 1957 ), sister of Anton Chekhov

* Michael Chekhov ( 1891 – 1955 ), Russian actor, director, and theorist, Anton's nephew and student of Stanislavski

* Nikolay Chekhov ( 1858-1889 ), painter and brother of Anton Chekhov

* Valery Chekhov ( born 1955 ), Russian chess grandmaster

* Three Sisters ( play ), a play by Anton Chekhov

In addition to his many Shakespearean roles ( Jaques in As You Like It, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Polonius in Hamlet, Malvolio in Twelfth Night ), Hordern performed in plays by Strindberg, Chekhov, Ibsen, Pinero, Pinter, Dürrenmatt, Albee, Alan Ayckbourn, David Mercer and Tom Stoppard.

French also undertook translations of Miss Julie ( August Strindberg ), The Forest ( Alexander Ostrovsky ), and of Anton Chekhov ’ s The Seagull, a version of which was produced on Broadway starring Laura Linney, Ethan Hawke, Jon Voight, and Tyne Daley.

The titular favourite people include Anton Chekhov, John Belushi, Barry Sheene, Margaret Thatcher (" only for a few days " the author allows ), John McEnroe and Starsky and Hutch.

* The Wood Demon ( 1889 ), a four-act comedy by Anton Chekhov

Among his most important productions in Hamburg are plays by Anton Chekhov ( Platonov, 1989 ; Uncle Vanya, 1995 ; Three Sisters, 1999 ), Henrik Ibsen ( Peer Gynt, 1985 ; The Wild Duck, 1994 ), Arthur Schnitzler ( Liebelei, 1988 ; Das weite Land, 1995 ) and William Shakespeare ( Hamlet, 1986 ; King Lear, 1992 ; As You Like It, 1998 ).

Anton Chekhov | Chekhov reads ( centre ), Constantin Stanislavski | Stanislavski ( to the left of him ) and Vsevolod Meyerhold | Meyerhold ( seated far right ) listen.

Since the Russian Romantic era and the corpus of work of the great Russian authors ( from Gogol to Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky ), the relationship between words in these pairs has become traditional.

This is a gallant authorial gesture, as when a professor at Cornell, Nabokov had complained from the lectern of authors who ask readers to accept a character's gifts on faith: " The author has hinted already that Gurov focus of Chekhov's Lady with the Little Dog was witty in the company of women: and instead of having the reader take it for granted ( you know the old method of describing the talk as ' brilliant ' but giving no samples of the conversation ), Chekhov makes him joke in a really attractive, winning way.

In 1982, the Haymarket staged a repertory season including Hobson's Choice, starring Penelope Keith ; Captain Brassbound's Conversion ( Shaw ); Uncle Vanya ( Chekhov ); Rules of the Game ( Luigi Pirandello ); and Man and Superman ( Shaw ), starring Peter O ' Toole.

In 1983, productions included The School for Scandal, starring Donald Sinden ; Heartbreak House ( Shaw ), starring Rex Harrison ; Ben Kingsley in a one-man show about Edmund Kean ; A Patriot for Me ( John Osborne ); The Cherry Orchard ( Chekhov ); and The Sleeping Prince ( Terence Rattigan ).

( The name " Uncle Vanya " is a nod to the book by Chekhov )

Later that year, he played Anton Chekhov in Neil Simon's adaptation of several Chekhov short stories, The Good Doctor, which was a hit.

Jarrell translated poems by Rainer Maria Rilke and others, a play by Anton Chekhov, and several Grimm fairy tales.

Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard during the course of several years, alternating between periods of lighthearted giddiness and despondent frustration which he considered as bordering upon sloth ( in a letter he wrote, " Every sentence I write strikes me as good for nothing.

* Project Gutenberg eText, English translations of several Chekhov plays, including The Cherry Orchard

Simon uses several direct references to Chekhov in the play: The writer's opening monologue quotes Trigorn, the writer in The Seagull, directly and one of the scenes, " The Audition " centers around an untried actress auditioning for The Writer by playing all of Three Sisters.

He also wrote several stories and translated into Hindi many works of Russian language writers like Turgenev, Chekhov, and Lermontov ( A Hero of Our Times ), as also Albert Camus ( The Outsider ).

Later he published several notable literary titles including From Chekhov to Our Days ( 1908 ), Critique stories ( 1911 ) and Faces and masks ( 1914 ).

* From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff ( 1999 ) ( documentary )

* Russia Discovered: Nineteenth Century Fiction from Pushkin to Chekhov.

* From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff ( 2002 )

The hostile audience intimidated Vera Komissarzhevskaya, whom some considered the best actor in Russia and who, according to Chekhov, had moved people to tears as Nina in rehearsal, and she lost her voice.

Chekhov () is a town and the administrative center of Chekhovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia.

On the outskirts of Chekhov lies the Davidov Hermitage, reputedly the richest monastery in Russia.

: Chekhov, Moscow Oblast, Russia

Again it deals with Russia ( Gerhardie was strongly influenced by the tragi-comic style of Russian writers such as Chekhov about whom he wrote a study while in College ).

Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mikhail Sholokhov, Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin ( Russia )

The Assumption Cathedral in Taganrog, Russia ( 1818-1938 ), where Anton Chekhov was christened on February 10, 1860

Taganrog is the native city of Anton Chekhov, Faina Ranevskaya, Sophia Parnok, Alexandre Koyré, Isaac Yakovlevich Pavlovsky, and Dmitri Sinodi-Popov ; names of Russian emperors Peter I of Russia and Alexander I of Russia ; Cornelius Cruys, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Konstantin Paustovsky, Nestor Kukolnik, Achilles Alferaki, Ioannis Varvakis, Sergei Bondarchuk and many other famous people are brought to mind when Taganrog is mentioned.

The documentary From Russia to Hollywood: the 100 Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff, profiles Chekhov and his fellow Russian associate George Shdanoff ; released in 1998, it is narrated by Gregory Peck, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's film Spellbound, for which Chekhov earned an Oscar Nomination.

Sweden's historic antipathy towards Russia was cited as the reason neither Tolstoy nor Anton Chekhov took the prize.

She co-narrates with Gregory Peck a documentary on Chekhov entitled " From Russia To Hollywood ".

His publications include Sound and Symbol with Professor J. J. Findlay, Germany in the Eighteenth Century, Die Gesellschaftlichen Grundlagen der Goethezeit, Chekhov and his Russia, Literary Interpretation in Germany and many more.

* Chekhov and His Russia, a Sociological Study ( 1947 )