Some scenes from The Seagull (Чайка, first published in 1895) written by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) and directed by Constantin Stanislavski (Russian theatre practitioner, 1863 - 1938) and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko at the Moscow Art Theater on December 29, 1898
The cast included Stanislavski as Trigorin and Vsevolod Meyerhold as Konstantin, Olga Knipper as Arkadnia, Maria Lilina as Masha, Maria Roksanova as Nina, Yevgeniya Raevskaya as Polina, Ioasaf Tikhomirov as Medvedenko, Vasily Luzhsky as Sorin, Alexander Vishnevsky as Dorn, and Alexander Artem as Shamrayev. The production ran for 57 performances in the 1898—99 season, 13 in the next, and 9 in the 1900 - 01 season. This was the first production in Moscow, though the play had been performed with only moderate success in St. Petersburg two years earlier.
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| Act 1 set design for The Seagull at the 1898 Moscow Theatre arts production |
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