the shadow of your shadow

A young girl grows up - beside a lake; she loves the lake like a seagull and she’s happy and free, as a seagull. But one day, by chance a man comes, and sees her, and having nothing better to do, destroys her, like this seagull here.

Trigorin from Chekhov’s The Seagull (via jellysnack)

dominicb003:

Anton Chekhov reading The Seagull to the company of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1899.

tzarevitch:

Margarita G. Savitskaya and V. Baranovskaya in ‘Three Sisters’ (1901)

Whose truth? You can tell what’s true and not true, but I seem to have lost my sight, I can’t see anything. You’re so sure you’ve got all the answers. But, my love, isn’t that because you’re too young to have lived out a single one of your questions? You can look at the future without blinking, and isn’t that because you’re not expecting to see the terrible things life has still got hidden from your innocent eyes?

Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard; Anton Chekhov

(Source: ofyourshadow)