Ivanoff a Play by Anton Chekhov — Read

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 garden of IVANOFF'S country place. On the left is a terrace and the facade of the house. One window is open. Below the terrace is a broad semicircular lawn, from which paths lead to right and left into a garden. On the right are several garden benches and tables. A lamp is burning on one of the tables. It is evening. As the curtain rises sounds of the piano and violoncello are heard.