ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the letter written by C. Alexeyev to Anton Pavlovich related to The Cherry Orchard. Success of Cherry Orchard very great, incomparably greater than in Moscow. The connoisseurs are rapturous over play. According to Alexeyev, Cherry Orchard is the best play. He has fallen in love with it even more deeply than with our dear Seagull. It is not a comedy, not a farce, it is a tragedy no matter if you do indicate a way out into a better world in the last act. It makes a tremendous impression, and this by means of half tones, tender water-color tints. The general tone of the set is like that of a Levitan painting. The landscape is that of the province of Orel not of lower Kursk. The work is being carried on as follows: Nemirovich-Danchenko rehearsed the first act yesterday and today wrote the acts. The weather, alas, is murderous. Everything is melting again and it rains frequently.
