“The Seagull” is a comedy in four acts by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The play was written in 1895—1896, and first published in issue 12 of the 1896 journal “Russian Thought.” The premiere took place on October 17, 1896, on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Chekhov remains one of the popular classical authors even to this day.