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zaustavio oko 1900. Plemstvo i dalje uživa iste privilegije kao i ranije, oligarhija industrijalaca i zemljoposednika je među sobom podelila zemlju. Ta otupelost je oličena trima sestrama, Olgom, Marijom i Irinom. Na početku drame, zatičemo ih godinu dana nakon smrti njihovog oca, visokog vojnog oficira. Njih tri žive u njegovoj kud, na selu, i čeznu za Moskvom u kojoj su rođene. Uprkos tome što, takozvani stubovl ruskog društva pohode sestre u njihovom obitavalištu - one ne uspevaju da izađu nakraj sa sopstvenom dokolicom. Novela Seljaci i drama Tri sestre nude dva pogleda na istu situaciju - jedan sa pozicije proletarijata, a drugi iz buržoaskog ugla. Svojom predstavom U Moskvu! U Moskvu! {Nach Moskau ! Nach Moskau!) Frank Kastorf spaja te dve Perspektive. Kolizija između „klase" obespravljenih i letarigije u koju je zapala buržoazija dovodi do porasta sodorevoludonarnog potencijala, koji je Čehov I nehotice prikazao kao uvod u dvadeseti vek i koji, bar delimično, najavIjuje događaje poput Oktobarske revolucije. Suprotno prekoru koji mu je uputio Proletkult, Čehovljevo delo može adekvatno da odgovori na pitanje: Kako delovati u situadji društvene nepravde, otporom 111 prilagođavanjem? A to je tema podjednako važna kako и Rusiji tako I u Nemačkoj. Sebastijan Kajzer, jul 2009.

which freezed around 1900 and awaits change. The nobility still enjoys its privileges, an oligarchy of industrialists and land owners divide the country among themselves. This numbness is also emblematized by the Three Sisters Olga, Maria and Irina. A year ago their father, a high-ranking general, died. Now they live at his house in the countryside and long for their home town Moscow. Although the so called pillars of Russian society consort with the sisters at their parlour - they remain unable to overcome their own idleness. The Peasants and the Sisters offer two perspectives on the same situation, one as a cosmography of the proletariat, the other as one of the bourgeoisie. In his Moscow production Frank Castorf brings these two perspective; together. The collision of the "class' of the disenfranchised with the bourgeois lethargy leads to the unfolding of a socialrevolutionary potential, which Chekhov subliminally drafted as an outlook on the twentieth century and which at least hints at historical events like the October Revolution. Contrary to the Proletkult's decrial of him, the work of the author Chekhov can serve very well to answer the question: How to act in the face of social injustice, resistance or assimliation? An equally relevant topic in Germany as well as in Russ a Sebastian Kaiser, July 2009

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