{"id":14,"date":"2010-08-07T07:31:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T07:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/latestngreatest.net\/letters\/?p=14"},"modified":"2010-08-07T07:31:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T07:31:56","slug":"anton-chekhov-letter-to-olga-knipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.latestngreatest.net\/loveletters\/famous-love-letters\/anton-chekhov-letter-to-olga-knipper.html","title":{"rendered":"Anton Chekhov Letter to Olga Knipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>September 1, 1902<br \/>\nYalta<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My dear, my own,<br \/>\nOnce again I have had a strange letter from you. Once again you hurl all sorts of accusations at my head. Who has told you that I don&#8217;t want to go back to Moscow, that I have gone away for good and am not coming back this autumn? Didn&#8217;t I write to you in plain Russian, that I would definitely be coming back in September and would live with you til December. Well, didn&#8217;t I? You accuse me of not being frank, yet you forget everything I write or say to you. And I simply can&#8217;t imagine what I am to do with my wife, or how I should write to her.<br \/>\nYou write that you tremble when you read my letters, that it is time for us to part, that there is something you don&#8217;t understand in all this. It strikes me, my darling, that neither I nor you are to blame for all this muddle, but someone else with whom you have been talking&#8230;You write that I am capable of living beside you and always being silent, that I only want you as an agreeable woman and that as a human being you are isolated and a stranger to me. My sweet, good darling, you are my wife, when are you finally going to understand that? You are the person nearest and dearest to me. I have loved you infinitely and I love you still and you go writing about being an agreeable woman, lonely and a stranger to me&#8230;Well then, have it your own way if you must!<br \/>\nI am better, but I&#8217;ve been coughing violently. There hasn&#8217;t been any rain, and it&#8217;s hot&#8230;<br \/>\nWrite and tell me what you&#8217;re doing, what parts are you playing, which new ones you&#8217;re rehearsing. You are not lazy like your husband, are you?&#8230;I love you more than ever and as a husband I have been blameless. Why can&#8217;t you finally understand that my joy, my scribble-scrabble?<br \/>\nGood-bye for the present, keep well and cheerful. Write to me every day without fail. I kiss you and hug you, my puppet.<br \/>\nYour A<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Anton Pavlovich Chekhov<\/strong> (1860-1904)<br \/>\nwas well educated in the classics and graduated as a doctor in 1884. After his father, a grocer, went bankrupt, Chekhov provided financial support for his large family by writing popular comic sketches for humorous journals. From 1888 his work became more serious&#8211;though with an underlying humor&#8211;and in the 16 years before his death he published more than 50 stories in leading literary journals. But his reputation as a major Russian writer rests on his plays: The Seagull (1896), Uncle Vanya (1900), The Three Sisters (1901), and The Cherry Orchard (1904). Chekhov valued political and artistic freedom highly. A religious skeptic, he was drawn to an ascetic lifestyle. He died in Germany in 1904 from tuberculosis that had make him an invalid for many years.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I have had a strange letter from you. Once again you hurl all sorts of accusations at my head. 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