Russia celebrated the 150th birthday of...

Moscow will host the Chekhov Days theater festival until January 31, with theaters showing productions based on Chekhov"s plays and short stories.

The festival features productions by famed directors, including Andrei Konchalovsky, and young producers. Foreign productions, Vladimir Pankov"s The Wedding for Belarus"s theater, and Daniele Finzi Pasca"s premiere of DONKA (A Letter to Chekhov) for the Teatro Sunil of Switzerland run on Friday to Sunday.

The famous Moscow Arts Theater, which was the first to stage Chekhov"s The Seagull, gave a gala performance commemorating the writer on Friday.

"The performance is our declaration of love for Anton Pavlovich Chekhov," famed actor and theater director Oleg Tabakov said adding the gala involved Russia"s leading actors and theater directors, "all those who hold the great writer dear to them."

The premiere of The Seagull flopped in 1896, but director Konstantin Stanislavsky revived the play to acclaim two years

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