Character · Uncle Vanya · Anton Chekhov

ASTROV

1 monologue indexed — plays yearning.

DramaticYearning30s–40sIntermediate

Monologues

ASTROV

I don't object to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The Russian forests are trembling under the blows of the axe. Millions of trees have perished.

1:04DramaticIntermediate

What ASTROV wants

To make one beautiful, bored woman feel the thing he cannot say directly — that he still believes in something.Astrov is exhausted by medicine and drink and the futility of the estate. Pressed to talk, he lands on the one subject that still moves him: the vanishing forests.