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Three Sisters
- Form
- Form Play
- Year
- Year 1901
- Originally in
- Originally in Russian
- Pages
- Pages 80
Olga, Masha, and Irina sit in their provincial garrison town and speak of Moscow as if Moscow were a country they had been promised and then exiled from. Anton Chekhov premiered this play at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, his fourth and last full-length play before The Cherry Orchard, written while tuberculosis was already shutting his lungs.
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