Nikolai Leskov (1831-95)(Serov portrait); Vsevolod Garshin (1853-1921) (Repin portrait); Vladimir Korolenko (1853-1921) (photo)

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904)

Chekhov’s Birthplace: Taganrog, Russia (north shore of the Sea of Azov, a few miles west of the mouth of the Don River)

Chekhov Literary Museum, Taganrog(Chekhov’s former Gymnasium)

Chekhov Monument, Taganrog, 1960

Chekhov House/Museum, Moscow

Isaak Il’ich Levitan (1860-1900), Russian Artist, Friend of Chekhov, portrait by Serov

Chekhov, portrait by Levitan

Chekhov with Friends and Family at Moscow House, 1890 (before Sakhalin journey)

Anton and brother Nikolai, 1882

Sakhalin Island

Sakhalin Photographs by Innokentii Pavlovski (1890s) 1. Convicts Hauling Coal

2. Sakhalin Convicts Carting Manure

3. Sakhalin Convicts Building a Road in the Taiga

4. Sakhalin Convicts Caught Attempting an Escape

5. Aleksandrovsk Prison Church

Chekhov Monument, Sakhalin

Chekhov in Middle Age

Chekhov, 1889

Chekhov House/Museum, Yalta;Chekhov in his study

Chekhov with Lev Tolstoy and Maksim Gorky, Yalta, 1900

Anton Pavlovich and Ol’ga Leonardovna Knipper (1868-1959)

Chekhov Grave, Novodevichii Monastery Cemetery, Moscow--and close-up of Tomb

Savva Timofeevich Morozov (1862-1905)

Moscow Art Theater [Московский Художественный Академический Театр; МХАТ] (photo, 1902, and the building today)

Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev (Stanislavsky) (1863-1938) and Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858-1943), Founders and Directors of

Моscow Art Theater

Chekhov reading The Seagull (Stanislavsky over his shoulder); Stanislavsky in The Seagull and in Uncle Vanya; Stanislavsky, 1938

Chekhov, 1898, portrait by Osip Emmanuilovich Bras (1872-1937)