Complete Works of Anton Chekhov

THE ANNIVERSARY

OR

THE FESTIVITIES

CHARACTERS

ANDREY ANDREYEVITCH SHIPUCHIN, Chairman of the N — — Joint Stock

Bank, a middle-aged man, with a monocle

TATIANA ALEXEYEVNA, his wife, aged 25

KUSMA NICOLAIEVITCH KHIRIN, the bank’s aged book-keeper

NASTASYA FYODOROVNA MERCHUTKINA, an old woman wearing an old-fashioned

cloak

DIRECTORS OF THE BANK

EMPLOYEES OF THE BANK

The action takes place at the Bank