Word: knipper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trivial. But his book does build to considerable power. Using new source material, Simmons demolishes Writer Lidiya Avilova's claim, put forth in her book Chekhov in My Life, that she was the writer's secret lifelong passion. Chekhov's only love. Simmons insists, was Olga Knipper, one of the first of a long series of famous actresses (including Dame Sybil Thorndike. Dame Judith Anderson and Katharine Cornell) to revel in Chekhov's rich feminine roles. Olga played Masha in the first production of The Three Sisters, in 1901, and married the playwright three years before...