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Example sentences for: vanya

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Chekhov's major plays-- Uncle Vanya , The Seagull , Three Sisters , and The Cherry Orchard --have links with his antecedent stories, as well as with events in his life.
What bothers me more, however, is the translation of the Russian proverb Chemu Vanya nye nauchilsya, tovo Ivan nye vyuchit .
In those circumstances, Dr. Astrov in Uncle Vanya might have written it.
Or (Part II, Section 7, Line 3): "Is Chekhov's Uncle Vanya a tragedy or a comedy?"
Just as in English the nickname Johnnie implies youth, so the Russian nickname Vanya implies boyhood—but only implies: Uncle Vanya was not young—while the formal names John/Ivan imply maturity.