Word: chekhova
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Olga Knipper-Chekhova, 89, widow of Anton Chekhov (who called her "my little crocodile"), Moscow Art Theater actress for 40 years; in Moscow...
Despite such bows to Soviet realism in the Moscow Theater's first new Orchard since 1947, the production came to London with the blessing of Chekhov's Actress-Widow Olga Knipper Chekhova. Moreover, Londoners, to whom Chekhov is as familiar as Shaw or Sheridan, seemed to approve. The first-night audiences -including such personages as Defense Minister Duncan Sandys and Lady Churchill -gave the group nine curtain calls. And one sack-clad miss added the awed, ultimate compliment: "You don't need to speak Russian to understand...
Died. Maria Pavlovna Chekhova, 93, only sister of Russian Playwright Anton Chekhov, who idolized her brother, never married, kept house for him much of the time, after his death in 1904 made a museum of his villa at Yalta; in Yalta...
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