The House with the Mezzanine

MediaBook Studio presents the audiobook “A House with a Mezzanine” by Anton Chekhov—the great Russian writer, a classic of world literature, an honorary academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the category of belles-lettres. One of the most famous playwrights in the world. His works have been translated into practically all languages of the world. His plays—especially “The Seagull,” “Three Sisters,” and “The Cherry Orchard”—for more than a hundred years have been staged in many theaters around the world and have been adapted for film countless times.

During his writing career, Anton Chekhov created more than five hundred works, many of which became classics of world literature.

The book is read by a popular film actress and a well-known dubbing actress, Yulia Tarkhova.

"It was six or seven years ago, when I lived in one of the districts of T— province, in the estate of the landowner Belokurov, a young man who got up very early, walked around in a dressing gown, drank beer in the evenings, and kept complaining to me that he met with sympathy nowhere and with no one. He lived in the garden, in the wing; and I lived in the old estate house, in a huge hall with columns, where there was no furniture at all except a wide sofa on which I slept, and a table on which I would lay out solitaire. All the time, even in quiet weather, something hummed in the old Amosov stoves, and during thunderstorms the whole house trembled and seemed to split into pieces, and it was a little frightening—especially at night, when all ten large windows were suddenly lit by lightning.

Condemned by fate to constant idleness, I did absolutely nothing. For hours I stared out of my windows at the sky, at the birds, at the avenues, read everything that was delivered to me by mail, slept. Sometimes I left the house and wandered somewhere until late evening.

One day, returning home, I accidentally wandered into some unknown manor."

School library.

On Yulia Tarkhova’s account are roles in Russian and Soviet cult films: “Tomorrow Was War (1987),” “The Quiet Outpost (1985),” “Zina-Zinulia (1986),” “A Revolution Called On,” “Red Cherry (1995),” as well as dubbing in dozens of films, including such bestsellers as “The Spy Bridge (2015),” “Number 44 (2014),” and many others.