CHEKHOV''S WORKS: POETICS AND PROTOTYPES (LYDIA YAVORSKAYA AND A.P. CHEKHOV)
On the basis of archival researches and the publication of letters of the famous Russian actress Lidiya Yavorskaya to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov the article develops the history of relations of two outstanding people at the turn of XIX-XX centuries, helps to comprehend some facts of their communication in a new way and reconsiders the history of Chekhov's "Seagull" and "Ariadne". The article includes never-before-published notes and letters from Yavorskaya to Chekhov, which change in many ways the deep-rooted ideas in Chekhov's studies about the prototypes of his works.