Anton Chekhov
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9. Anton Chekhov, 1883
10. Evgenia, Pavel, Aleksandr, Vania, Masha and Misha in the early 1880s
11. Masha, Anna Golden (Kolia’s mistress), Natalia Golden and Kolia, c. 1883
12. Franz Schechtel with Kolia Chekhov in the early 1880s
13. Future doctors Dmitri Saveliev, Anton Chekhov, Vasili Zembulatov, Nikolai Korobov, autumn 1883
14. Nikolai Leikin, c. 1883
15. Natalia Golden as ‘Poverty’, painted by Kolia Chekhov
16. Anton Chekhov as painted by Kolia, 1884
17. Babkino, the Kiseliovs’ house
18. The Moscow house ‘like a chest of drawers’, painted by Misha
19. Photograph given to Tchaikovsky inscribed ‘To Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, to remind him of a cordially devoted and grateful admirer …’
20. At the Lintvariov’s cottage, May 1889: on landing Vania, Misha(?); sitting on steps Evgenia, Masha, Marian Semashko
21. Kleopatra Karatygina
22. Olga Kundasova, mid 1880s
23. The actors Pavel Svobodin and Vladimir Davydov with Anton and Suvorin, January 1889
24. Repin’s drawing ‘Literary Society’ in St Petersburg, 1889 shows Anton second from right and Suvorin far right
25. Anton Chekhov, January 1890 inscribed to Kleopatra Karatygina ‘from the artist on tour in Odessa’
26. Lika Mizinova in the early 1890s
27. At the Korneev house before setting off for Sakhalin, April 1890; back row Aleksandr Ivanenko, Vania, Pavel; middle row Masha Korneeva (the landlord’s daughter). Lika Mizinova, Masha, Evgenia, Seriozha Korneev; front Misha and Anton
28. Convicts being fettered on Sakhalin
29. Anton on a picnic with Japanese consular officials on Sakhalin, October 1890
30. Levitan with gun-dog, early 1890s
31. The house at Melikhovo (painting by Simov)
32. Masha, Anton, Vania behind, Aleksandra Liosova (Vania’s fiancée), Misha, Aleksandr Smagin (Masha’s suitor), 25 March, 1892
33. Cousin Aleksei Dolzhenko, Anton in wheelbarrow, Misha behind, Giliarovsky pushing, Vania at right at Melikhovo, Easter 1892
34. With Pavel Svobodin at Melikhovo, June 1892
35. Aleksandr left and Vania at Melikhovo, July 1892
36. Aleksandr’s sons Kolia and Tosia by the stables at Melikhovo, July 1892
37. Pavel and Evgenia at Melikhovo, July 1892
39. Natalia Golden-Chekhova with son Misha, 1893
38. Anton with neighbours and colleagues: standing Dr Kurkin, Dr Vitte, Prince Shakhovskoi; sitting Anton, Dr Kashintsev, Misha, Khmeliov (Serpukhov council), summer 1893
40. ‘The Temptations of St Antony’: Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik, Lidia Iavorskaia and Anton, late 1893
41. Elena Shavrova, c. 1894
42. Masha and Natalia Lintvariova painting watched by artist Sakharov at Luka, c. 1894
43. Masha in the garden at Melikhovo, c. 1894
44. Anton, Mamin-Sibiriak and Ignati Potapenko, 9 January 1896
45. Sonia and Vania Chekhov with their son Volodia, 1896
46. Anton with the Suvorin family at Feodosia, September 1896. He is sitting second from right with Emilie Bijon on his left; Suvorin is standing second from left, between Anne and Nastia Suvorina
47. The schoolteachers at Talezh and Melikhovo, Aleksandr Mikhailov and Maria Terentieva
48. Lidia Iavorskaia
49. The Seagull being shot down
50. Back from the clinic, April 1897
51. With Quinine the dachshund, May 1897
52. Lika Mizinova with Anton, May 1897
53. Vera Komissarzhevskaia
54. Daria Musina-Pushkina with Anton, 31 May 1897
55. Aleksandra Khotiaintseva, c. 1898
56. With Moscow Arts Theatre members, Spring 1899; standing Vishnevsky. Luzhsky, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Olga Knipper, Stanislavsky, Roksanova, Nikolaeva, Andreev; sitting Raevskaia, Artiom, Anton, Lilina, Tikhomirov, Meyerhold
57. Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
58. Olga Knipper
59. The Yalta house nearing completion, mid 1899
60. Dr Altshuller
61. Anton in his study at Yalta, 1900
62. Anton and Gorky, 5 May 1900
63. Anton and Olga on honeymoon at Aksionovo, June 1901
64. Anton with the Tolstoys, 12 September 1901
65. Evgenia, Masha, Olga and Anton at Yalta, February 1902
66. In the garden at Yalta with a tame crane, March 1904
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