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Faust
also: Фауст
An operatic setting of the Faust legend -- almost certainly Gounod's popular "Faust" -- then a fixture of the Moscow theater repertoire, which Chekhov reports going to see the evening he wrote this letter.
Reading notes
- To Al. P. Chekhov, 12 November 1882. Moscow. §13 Faust
An operatic setting of the Faust legend -- almost certainly Gounod's popular "Faust" -- then a fixture of the Moscow theater repertoire, which Chekhov and "Marya" were off to see the evening he wrote this.