Buy this book on-line PITCHER, HARVEY: : CHEKHOV'S LEADING LADY - A Portrait of the Actress OLGA KNIPPERUSA,NY.FRANKLIN WATTS INC,1980. ISBN 0531099180.
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His numerous letters to her have long been available in English translation.Here for the first time, extensive use has been made of her even more numerous and previously untranslated letters to him, including the remarkable series of letters written after his death - which only appeared in 1972 and are unknown to English readers.Her life was exceptional even without Chekhov.Succeeding in marrying Russia's most literary elusive bachelor when he was already past forty. For several decades,she was the MOSCOW ART THEATRE's leading actress.
In the 1920's she became as well known in US as in Russia.Recently published Russian material has made it possible to trace the whole of her colourful career from it's beginnings in Tsarist Russia,through the years of Revolution,temporary exile and social upheaval,until her last appearance on stage aged 90.
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