Three Sisters is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC for two seasons from January 9, 2001, to February 5, 2002.

Three sisters, Ira, Olya and Masha, have long dreamed of leaving Nizhny Novgorod for Moscow. Each sister has her own moving scenario, but they all secretly rely on the financial help of her mother, the owner of Tatiana's jewelry business. However, Tatiana has other plans for life: as a souvenir from her vacation, she brings a massage therapist 20 years younger than herself. And while the whole town is gossiping about a sudden romance, the daughters suspect that the new family member is an ordinary conman. They intend to open Tatiana's eyes to the truth, but does a woman who just wants to be happy need her?

Preserving the text of the play, the amazing dialogues, the brilliant characters, we have transposed the action into today’s Russian provinces and changed only one thing: the age of the heroes. In Anton Chekhov’s play the heroines are aged around 25; now they are 55. What does that do? The heroes’ retorts, stylistically inappropriate from today’s twenty-year-olds, are absolutely organic for the older generation, the ‘Soviet’ intelligentsia. The problems of Chekhov’s classical work concerning the search for a meaning in life, the loss of ideals, the fear before death without having achieved anything in the world, the desire to be useful to others – all these things are also a typical attribute of the Soviet intelligentsia.

For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov’s greatest, most expansively melancholy plays.

A screen adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play about three sisters yearning for a better life.

The play rotates around three sisters, whose father was a general who died the previous year. They can't wait to move to Moscow, leaving behind the mediocre provincial life.

Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.

Tri sestry (Three Sisters) is a 1998 opera by Péter Eötvös to a Russian libretto by Eötvös and Claus H. Henneberg based on Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters. It was the composer's first large-scale opera.

A stage production by the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre.

In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.