SEAGULL NAME PRONOUNCIATIONS

Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina:  Ee-ree ́-na  Nee-kah-lah ́-yuhv-nuh  Ahr-kah ́-dee-nuh   (ee rhymes with the English word seem; uh rhymes with the word putt) Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev:  Kuhn-stahn-teen ́  Gahv-ree ́-luh-veech  Tryep ́-lyihf  (Kost ́-yuh) Pyotr Nikolayevich Sorin (Petrusha):  Pyo ́-tur  Nee-kah-lah ́-yuh-veech  So ́-reen  (Pee-troo ́-shuh)   (oo rhymes with the word soon) Nina Mikhailovna Zarechnaya:  Nee ́-nuh  Mee-khai ́-luhv-nuh  Zah-ryech ́-nuh-yuh   (kh is a hard h sound, akin to Hebrew; khai rhymes with the word why) Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev:  Eel-yah ́  Uh-fah-nah ́-syih-veech  Shahm-rah ́-yihf Paulina Andreyevna:  (Note: This is the Anglicized spelling—in Russian, it’s “Polina”)  Pah-lee ́-nuh  Ahn-drey ́-yihf-nuh Masha (Marya Ilyinichna) (Mashenka):  Mah ́-shuh  (Mah ́-ryuh Eel-yeen ́-eech-nuh)  (Mah ́-sheen-kuh) Boris Alexeyevich Trigorin:  Bah-rees ́  (NOT Bor ́-is)  Ah-leek-syey ́-yee-veech  Tree-go ́-reen Yevgeny Sergeyevich (Sergeich) Dorn:  Yeev-ge ́-nee  Syer-gey ́-ee-veech  (Syer-gey ́-eech)  Dorn Semyon Semyonovich Medvedenko:  See-myon ́ See-myon ́-uh-veech Myeed-vyee-dyen ́-ko Yakov:  Yah ́-kuhf 

Other Russian Names Appearing in the Chekhov's The Seagull: Chadin, Pavel Semyonich (Pashka):  Chah ́-deen, Pah ́-veel See-myon ́-eech (Pahsh ́-kuh) Gogol: Go ́-guhl Grokholsky: Grah-hol ́-skee Izmailov: Eez-mai ́-luhf   Harkov: Khar ́-kuhf Mama: Mah ́-muh Matryona: Mah-tryo ́-nuh Molchanovka: Mahl-chah ́-nuhf-kuh Nekrasov: Nee-krah ́-suhf Papa: Pah ́-puh Poltava: Pahl-tah ́-vuh Rasplyuyev: Rahs-plyoo ́-yihf Rusalka: Roo-sahl ́-kuh Sadovsky: Sah-dof ́-skee Slavyansky: Slah-vyahn ́-skee 

Suzdaltsev: Sooz ́-duhl-tsihf Trezor: Tree-zor ́ Turgenev: Toor-ge ́-nyihf Yelets: Yee-lyets ́ Yelisavetgrad: Yee-lee-suh-veet-graht ́