Within this sub-genre in the 2010 edition there's Elif Batuman's ?The Murder of Leo Tolstoy,? which begins at an international Tolstoy conference on the grounds of the dead writer's estate, Yasnaya Polyana; it ends in Chekhov's garden ...
The six-DVD Anton Chekhov Collection gathers up vintage stagings of the master playwright's dramatic material, providing a mini-education in the Russian author's bibliography in one handy box. These aren't necessarily cinematic .... Constantin loves Nina (Julia Schofield), an actress he has cast in the play he seeks to put on during the family vacation in the country, but Nina has stars in her eyes and not only chases, but catches Trigorin. Thus, Constantin is like a ...
-Adultery in Yalta between young married woman and banker on vacation. Chekhov may be worth adding to your GRE reading list--his plays are short, and you're almost guaranteed to get a Chekhov question or two on the exam. ...
