from Bonnar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w69l3oJnnHQ
-This is footage that I found of Chekhov’s personal home in Yalta. Yalta is the primary area where people from the Soviet Union went on holiday. I realize this is a bit after Chekhov was writing, but perhaps it was a similar place that one would go to rest at the turn of the century. The first half is poorly shot but the second half is the interior of what appears to be a woman’s bedroom. I thought this might be helpful to get a feel for the size/décor of a country room. Look at the size of the bed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM3DTTV1Gcc

This video consists of a number of paintings by Niko Pirosmanashvili, a 19th-early 20th century Georgian artist. I thought his work might be interesting for us because he mainly paints people dining and people serving food which is a frequent scene in many Chekhov play. Pirosmanashvili was not very well known outside of Russia and Georgia, but he captures something unique to the time period in many of these pictures.