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“Many would argue that Chekhov’s play The Seagull is not a crime story because the main character shoots himself (we are told in the last scene). Well, my theory is that Chekhov did not understand what really happened there. Konstantin had absolutely no motive for suicide, hence he was murdered. By one of the other characters. So this is a classical hermetic whodunit. I wrote a play (again) called “The Real) Seagull where I investigate what could have happened there.” Read more...
Boris Akunin, Thriller and Crime Writer
“It was a great moment in Russian history. So, as a kind of period piece that captures Russia in the late 19th, early 20th century, it’s the most poignant text I’ve ever read…You learn much more about Russia before the revolution by reading The Cherry Orchard than you will by studying the tsar and his land reforms or other decisions made in St Petersburg by the leadership.” Read more...
Peter Frankopan, Historian
