PREFACE
The present versions of “The Life of Man” and “The Black Maskers” are based respectively on the texts printed in the seventh and tenth volumes of the “Collected Works” of Andreyeff, published by the Prosveshchenie Company, of Petrograd; the version of “The Sabine Women” is based on the Russian text published by J. Ladyschnikow, in Berlin.
The spelling Andreyeff employed in this volume is adopted to secure conformity with the spelling Tchekoff adopted in the companion volume “Plays by Tchekoff.” A more scientific transliteration would be Andreev.
The translators desire to express their appreciation of the courtesy of the author in extending to them permission to translate the three plays included in this volume, as well as other dramas, and also to acknowledge with gratitude the aid received from Mr. Leonid Borisovich Moiseyeff, of Tomsk, Siberia.
The Translators.
Ann Arbor, Mich.,
October, 1914.