Dear Writer, Dear Actress: The Love Letters of Olga Knipper and Anton Chekhov

The friendship, liaison and marriage of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov and the legendary actress Olga Knipper is one of the most extraordinary love stories in the history of the theatre. We can no capture the quality of their restless and passionate relationship through the mass of letters they left behind, as selected and pieced together for the first time in English.