Characters

by Anton Chekhov

　　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