Join us for a talk by Rosamund Bartlett focusing on the gardens which feature in Chekhov's stories and plays, and those he himself planted. It will also explore how they helped him communicate his message about the role played by the natural environment in our physical and spiritual well-being, which in 2018 inspired the creation of the Anton Chekhov Foundation's first 'Chekhov Community Garden' at a surgery in Devon.
Learn more about The Anton Chekhov Foundation Garden Project.
Rosamund Bartlett is the author of Chekhov: Scenes from a Life, and the editor and co-translator of Chekhov: A Life in Letters. Her Chekhov anthology About Love and Other Stories was shortlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She led the campaign to save Chekhov’s house in Yalta, and remains a trustee of the Anton Chekhov Foundation, a UK charity set up to honour the writer’s literary and humanitarian legacy.
TICKETS
Please note this is a hybrid event, in-person at Pushkin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, but with the option to buy a digital ticket to watch online, live and on demand.