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Ivanoff: A Play

Chapter 2: A PLAY
By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Set in a provincial Russian estate, the play follows an aristocratic landowner whose chronic gloom, mounting debts, and strained marriage to a compassionate wife produce apathy and self-reproach. He drifts among acquaintances—an opportunistic manager, a boisterous friend, a worldly neighbour, and a young woman whose youthful idealism briefly kindles hope—while local officials and creditors press for repayment. Conversations, petty schemes, failed consolations, and social theater expose hypocrisy, moral paralysis, and the unbearable weight of responsibility, driving the protagonist toward an unavoidable personal crisis across four acts.

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Title: Ivanoff: A Play

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Release date: May 1, 1999 [eBook #1755]
Most recently updated: November 26, 2012

Language: English

Credits: Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer, and David Widger

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IVANOFF

A PLAY


By Anton Checkov





Contents

CHARACTERS


IVANOFF


ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV





CHARACTERS

NICHOLAS IVANOFF, perpetual member of the Council of Peasant Affairs

ANNA, his wife. Nee Sarah Abramson

MATTHEW SHABELSKI, a count, uncle of Ivanoff

PAUL LEBEDIEFF, President of the Board of the Zemstvo

ZINAIDA, his wife

SASHA, their daughter, twenty years old

LVOFF, a young government doctor

MARTHA BABAKINA, a young widow, owner of an estate and daughter of a rich merchant

KOSICH, an exciseman

MICHAEL BORKIN, a distant relative of Ivanoff, and manager of his estate

AVDOTIA NAZAROVNA, an old woman

GEORGE, lives with the Lebedieffs

FIRST GUEST SECOND GUEST THIRD GUEST FOURTH GUEST

PETER, a servant of Ivanoff

GABRIEL, a servant of Lebedieff

GUESTS OF BOTH SEXES

The play takes place in one of the provinces of central Russia





IVANOFF