The Cherry Orchard Cherry Orchard" was Chekhov's tribute to himself. Many of the characters in the play hearken back to his earlier works and are based on people he knew in his own life. It should also be noted that his boyhood house was bought and torn down by a wealthy man that his mother had considered a friend. The breaking guitar string in acts 2 and 4 hark back to his earliest works. Finally the classic "loaded gun" that appears in many of Chekhov's plays appears here, but this is his only play in which a gun is shown but not fired.
Three Sisters (agriculture) women tended the crops, the 'three sisters'. This was because men could be absent from their home and villages for an extended amount of time while hunting, attending diplomatic missions and raiding. The initial preparation for the planting of the 'three sisters' was performed by the men who cleared the land. After the land was cleared, groups of women who were related to each other would then do the planting, weeding and harvesting. Three Sisters (agriculture) The Three Sisters are the three main agricultural crops of various Native American groups in North America: winter squash, maize (corn), and climbing beans