’…from that meeting on, a fine and complicated knot of my life started to be slowly tightening’, - wrote the actress Olga Knipper about her acquaintance with Chekhov. The actress played a special part in the spiritual life of Chekhov’s last years, his excellency in talking jokingly about what’s important was vividly manifest in their correspondence. There was an age difference between them – Chekhov was 8 years older, but he never viewed himself as a teacher. They supported each other, joked, resolved all issues easily.
Chekhov begged ‘the darling actress’ to keep her chin up in times of trouble in her theatre career, defend her position (‘have it your own, actress’s way’) or, later, not to lower her moral standards (“don”t let your soul get narrow, my girl”).
Chekhov begged ‘the darling actress’ to keep her chin up in times of trouble in her theatre career, defend her position (‘have it your own, actress’s way’) or, later, not to lower her moral standards (“don”t let your soul get narrow, my girl”).
