LIT/A/2: THE CHERRY ORCHARD By Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov was one of the famous Russian writers renowned for his short stories and plays. The Cherry Orchard was his last play, produced by the famous Moscow Art Theatre shortly before his death in 1904. He thinks of people with a mixture of affection and ridicule, this side of him in The Cherry Orchard, which depicts an aristocratic Russian family that loses their ancestral estate because they can't pay the mortgage.