![]() Anna (born as Sarah Abramson) – Ivanov's wife of 5 years who (unknowingly) suffers from tuberculosis.Severely afflicted by internal conflicts his loss of appetite for life, love of his wife, and external pressures managing his estate and his debts, collide in a melodramatic climax. Nikolai Ivanov – A government official concerned with peasant affairs, Chekhov paints him as the quintessentially melancholy Russian from the upper social strata.Chekhov's revised version was a success and offered a foretaste of the style and themes of his subsequent masterpieces. After this revision, it was accepted to be performed in St. Consequently, the final version is different from that first performance. Irritated by this failure, Chekhov made alterations to the play. ![]() In a letter to his brother, he wrote that he "did not recognise his first remarks as my own" and that the actors "do not know their parts and talk nonsense". The first performance was not a success and the production disgusted Chekhov himself. ![]() Chekhov, however, responded with a four-act drama, which he wrote in ten days. Ivanov was first performed in 1887, when Fiodor Korsh, owner of the Korsh Theatre in Moscow, commissioned Chekhov to write a comedy. Ivanov ( Russian: Иванов: драма в четырёх действиях (Ivanov: drama in four acts) also translated as "Ivanoff") is a four-act drama by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. ![]()
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