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Facts

• • In Russia

  • Mme. Ranevsky owns an estate with a cherry orchard

  • It's May, the cherry trees are in bloom

  • There's an early frost

  • There's a room called the Nursery

  • The windows are closed

  • Mme. Ranevsky has been living abroad for 5 years

  • Lophakin's father is dead

  • Lophakin's father was a peasant and a serf of the Ranevsky family, but Lophakin is rich now

  • Epikhodov the clerk proposed to Dunyasha after Easter, he's in love with her

  • Anya is Mme. Ranevsky's daughter

  • Varya is Mme. Ranevsky's adopted daughter, she is older than Anya

  • Anya went away during Lent, it was snowing and cold

  • Epikhodov is a clerk

  • There is a train, it was 2 hours late

  • Charlotta the governess has a dog

  • Peter Sergeyevitch Trimolov has been there 2 days, he lives in the bath-house

  • Anya left to fetch Mme. Ranevsky in Paris, where she was living on the 5^th floor

  • They don't have any money, but Mme. Ranevsky spends it carelessly anyway

  • Mme. Ranevsky had a villa near Mentone, but sold it

  • Yasha is Mme. Ranevsky's footman

  • The estate will be sold August 22

  • Varya and Lophakin have some kind of relationship. Everyone expects them to get married

  • Anya's father died 6 years ago and 1 month later her 7 year old brother Grisha drowned

  • Mme. Ranevsky left after her son and husband died

  • Trimolov was was Grisha's tutor

  • Gaev is 51, he is Mme. Ranevsky's brother

  • The estate is 13 miles from town

  • There is a river

  • The railway runs beside the estate

  • The orchard is very large and mentioned in the Encyclopeadic Dictionary

  • They used to sell the cherries from the orchard as dried, pickled, and jam. They would send them in carts to Moscow and Kharkov.

  • There is a bookcase in the room that is 100 years old

  • Fiers is old, he's been mumbling for 3 years

  • There is a long straight avenue

  • Mme. Ranevsky married a man who wasn't noble and the family was upset about it

  • There are more old servants

Research Questions

• • Where in Russia is the estate?

  • How large is it?

  • How large is the orchard?

  • Are the orchard and the house the only things on the estate?

  • What does Epikhodov do as a clerk?

  • Does he work for Gaev?

  • Where has Mme. Ranevsky been? Why did she leave?

  • How did Lophakin's father die?

  • How did Lophakin get rich?

  • Where is Varya from? What happened to her parents?

  • Why was the train late?

  • Who's governess is Charlotta? Anya's?

  • Why did Tromilov come?

  • Mme. Ranevsky lived on the 5^th floor of where?

  • Why did Anya go get Mme. Ranevsky from Paris? Was she out of money?

  • Where is Mentone?

  • When did Mme. Ranevsky buy the villa in Mentone? When did she sell it?

  • What happened to all the family's money?

  • Why does Mme. Ranevsky have a footman if she has no money? What does he do?

  • What year is it?

  • What did Anya's father die of?

  • How far is Kharkov from the estate? How far is Moscow?

  • What town is it?

  • What river is it? How big is it?

  • Did Grisha drown in the river or somewhere else?

  • Which dictionary is Gaev referring to? A Russian one?

  • Why did they stop making things from the cherries and selling them?

  • Why does Mme. Ranevsky rip up the telegrams from Paris? Who are they from?

  • What's going on with Gaev? Why does he keep saying random things?

  • Who is Pischin? Why is he always hanging around?

  • Why does Pischin keep asking them for money when they don't have any?

  • What does Tromilov study?

  • Who are the other old servants?