![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Excerpts from Knipper's memoirs and brief footnotes offer further insight. Although the repetition of pet names and small talk on the weather wears thin, such minutiae help bring the letters-and the principles-alive. ![]() Benedetti's translations have a welcome contemporary flair and provide an enjoyable, romantic read. Later, the letter writing became a form of therapy for Knipper as she continued to address Chekhov in a journal following his death. Their bond sustained the couple through several theater seasons, increasingly serious bouts of illness and a miscarriage. Olga Knipper was born September 21st, 1868 in Glazov, Russia to German parents, but moved to Moscow at the age of 2. Chekhov supplied her with the calming, encouraging antidote of his sweet and sensitive comments. Knipper's dramatic descriptions of life in Moscow were frequently awash with her insecurities about her stage performances of Chekhov's work or her relationship with his mother and overbearing sister. Love blossoms long-distance between the sickly playwright, forced to stay in the warmer regions of Yalta for his tuberculosis, and the rising star of the Moscow Art Theater. Benedetti (Stanislavski) delivers an illuminating and heartfelt volume of the correspondence between Chekhov and his friend, lover and, eventually, wife, Olga Knipper, from 1899 to Chekhov's death in 1904. Dear Writer, Dear Actress : The Love Letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper Dear Writer, Dear Actress : The Love Letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper. ![]()
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