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