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