Marriage
Journal: Cornell University Press eBooks
Year: 2025

This chapter explores the personal relationships and eventual marriage of Anton Chekhov. By the spring of 1902, Lidia Yavorskaya, Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik, Lidia Mizinova, and Varvara Eberle, once referred to as the “sirens of the Louvre,” had married, along with Chekhov himself. The chapter details Chekhov's proposal to Olga Knipper while in Yalta in 1901, after years of complicated relationships, including a strained and distant one with Lidia Mizinova. It also details Knipper and Chekhov's