Characters

           &nbsp LUBOV ANDREYEVNA RANEVSKY (Mme. RANEVSKY), a landowner
           &nbsp ANYA, her daughter, aged seventeen
           &nbsp VARYA (BARBARA), her adopted daughter, aged twenty-seven
           &nbsp LEONID ANDREYEVITCH GAEV, Mme. Ranevsky's brother
           &nbsp ERMOLAI ALEXEYEVITCH LOPAKHIN, a merchant
           &nbsp PETER SERGEYEVITCH TROFIMOV, a student
           &nbsp BORIS BORISOVITCH SIMEONOV-PISCHIN, a landowner
           &nbsp CHARLOTTA IVANOVNA, a governess
           &nbsp SIMEON PANTELEYEVITCH EPIKHODOV, a clerk
           &nbsp DUNYASHA (AVDOTYA FEDOROVNA), a maidservant
           &nbsp FIERS, an old footman, aged eighty-seven
           &nbsp YASHA, a young footman
           &nbsp A TRAMP
           &nbsp A STATION-MASTER
           &nbsp POST-OFFICE CLERK
           &nbsp GUESTS
           &nbsp A SERVANT