The film is going to be shown on main (federal) TV channels of Russia. In opinion of Moscow city administration this picture dedicated to life and works of a great Russian writer Anton Chekhov deals with questions still important for everyone. (for details see http://www.garant.ru/prime/show.php?pid=287097&make=print&mv=1).
Maria played Lidia Yavorskaya the most passionate love of Anton Chekhov. Yavorskaya was an actress in Moscow theatre of Fedor Korsh. She was a self-confident, temperamental and energetic woman. In the name of her love she made frantic gestures. She herself asked him to marry her, send him flowers and bombarded him with love letters.