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Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts

Chapter 4: CHARACTERS
By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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A household at a country estate is unsettled when a retired professor and his young wife move in, disrupting routines and exposing simmering grievances. The estate's manager resents years spent sustaining the household and nurses unfulfilled longing, while other family members and a weary doctor each confront their own disappointments and small mercies. Emotional tensions rise through arguments and unreciprocated attachments, and conversations about labor, purpose, and the natural world surface. In the end, fiery disputes subside into weary acceptance, and daily duties resume under a shadow of quiet resignation.

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Title: Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Release date: May 1, 1999 [eBook #1756]
Most recently updated: November 26, 2012

Language: English

Credits: Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer, and David Widger

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UNCLE VANYA

SCENES FROM COUNTRY LIFE

IN FOUR ACTS


By Anton Checkov





Contents

CHARACTERS


UNCLE VANYA


ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV





CHARACTERS

ALEXANDER SEREBRAKOFF, a retired professor

HELENA, his wife, twenty-seven years old

SONIA, his daughter by a former marriage

MME. VOITSKAYA, widow of a privy councilor, and mother of Serebrakoff's first wife

IVAN (VANYA) VOITSKI, her son

MICHAEL ASTROFF, a doctor

ILIA (WAFFLES) TELEGIN, an impoverished landowner

MARINA, an old nurse

A WORKMAN



The scene is laid on SEREBRAKOFF'S country place





UNCLE VANYA