The Cherry Orchard the debut of "The Cherry Orchard" by the Moscow Art Theatre on 17 January 1904 (Stanislavski's birthday) was a resounding theatrical success and the play was almost immediately presented in many of the important provincial cities. This success was not confined only to Russia, as the play was soon seen abroad with great acclaim as well. Shortly after the play's debut, Chekhov departed for Germany due to his worsening health, and by July 1904 he was dead. The modest and newly urbanized audiences attending pre-revolutionary performances at S. V. Panin's People's House in Saint Petersburg reportedly cheered as the cherry
How the Devil Married Three Sisters How the Devil Married Three Sisters How the Devil Married Three Sisters is an Italian fairy tale found in Thomas Frederick Crane's "Italian Popular Tales" (1885). It was collected and originally published in German as ""Der Teufel heirathet drei Schwestern"" by Widter and Wolf in 1866. It is classified as Aarne-Thompson tale type 311, "The heroine rescues herself and her sisters". Italo Calvino's retelling, entitled "Silver Nose" in his "Italian Folktales" (1956) is a composite, with its skeletal plot based on a Piedmont version featuring the devil-husband with a silver nose, fleshed out using variants from other localities. The following