The Seagull
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![Guest cottage at Melikhovo where Chekhov wrote The Seagull](/Images/godic/202502/17/Melikhovo_Cottage_21243.jpg")
![Chekhov reads The Seagull with the Moscow Art Theatre company. Chekhov reads (centre), nn Chekhov's right, Konstantin Stanislavski is sat, and next to him, Olga Knipper. Stanislavski's wife, Maria Liliana, is seated to Chekhov's left. On the far right side of the photograph, Vsevolod Meyerhold is sat. Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko stands in the far left side of the photograph..](/Images/godic/202502/17/Anton_Chekhov_reads_The_Seagull1243.jpg")
![Studio portrait of Stanislavski as Trigorin from the 1898 Moscow Art Theatre production[8]](/Images/godic/202502/17/Stanislavski_Seagull1243.jpg")
The Seagull (Russian:Чайка, Chayka) is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev.