Cherry Orchard

TIMELINE: Important Events Surrounding Anton Chekhov’s Life
1859 – Darwin’s Origin of the Species;
1859 -- Marx’s Critique of Political Economy
1860 – Chekhov is born
1861 – Alexander II emancipates the serfs (Chekhov’s grandfather is
liberated)
Young Chekhov
1861 -- Civil War in America
1863 – Emancipation Proclamation
1864 – Alexander II creates limited self-governments (zemstvos)
1865 – Lincoln is assassinated
1867 – Ibsen’s Peer Gynt;
1867 -- Marx’s Das Kapital
First reading of the Emancipation
Proclamation
1875 – Chekhov begins magazine “The Stammerer” for family
circulation;
1875 -- Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina;
1875 -- Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
1876 – Chekhov’s family evicted; father leaves
Karl Marx
1879 – Chekhov enrolls in University to study medicine;
1879 -- Ibsen’s Doll’s House;
1879 – Edison invents the light bulb
1880 – Zolas’ Naturalism in the Theater
1881 – Alexander II assassinated; Alexander III takes over;
1881 -- James Garfield is assassinated
1884 – Chekhov begins practicing medicine;
1884 -- Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The assassination of
Alexander II
1887 – Chekhov’s Ivanov;
1888 – Chekhov begins publishing his stories; The Bear, The Wood Demon, The Swan Song
are performed, he meets Stanislavsky;
1888 -- Strindberg’s Miss Julie
The Moscow Art Theater
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