First trip to western Europe: Italy and France.
March. Moves with family to small country estate at Melikhovo, 50 miles south of Moscow.
First meeting with Tolstoy.
17 October. First-disastrous-performance of TheSeagullin St Petersburg.
Suffers severe haemorrhage.
1897-8 Winters in France. Champions Zola's defence of Dreyfus.
Beginning of collaboration with the newly founded Moscow Art Theatre. Meets Olga Knipper. Spends the winter in Yalta, where he meets Gorky.
17 December. First Moscow Art Theatre performance of The Seagulclass="underline" successful.
Completes the building of a house in Yalta, where he senles with mother and sister.
26 October. First performance by Moscow Art Theatre of Uncle Vanya (wrmen ?1896).
1899-1901 First collected edition of hii works (10 volumes).
1901 31 January. Three Sisters first performed.
25 May. Marries Olga Knipper.
1904 17 January. First performance of The Cherry Orchard.
2 July. Dies in Badenweiler, Germany.