A vast, beautiful estate full of trees with white blossoms and legendary memories, yet barren and drowning in debt, becomes the symbol of the landowning class whose stagnant life gives way before the surging rise of new social classes. Chekhov's swan song, inspired by the historical and social conditions of Russia before the revolutions of 1905 and 1917.
A vast, beautiful estate full of trees with white blossoms and legendary memories, yet barren and drowning in debt, becomes the symbol of the landowning class whose stagnant life gives way before the surging rise of new social classes. Chekhov's swan song, inspired by the historical and social conditions of Russia before the revolutions of 1905 and 1917.