The Mystery of Olga Chekhova (20 page)

7. The Knipper children in 1904: Lev, Ada and Olga (right).

8. A rather larger Lulu Knipper, with Olga (behind),Ada and Lev on Konstantin’s lap.

9.
The Cherry Orchard,
with Vasily Kachalov as Trofimov and Olgal Knipper-Chekhova as Ranyevskaya.

10. Konstantin Knipper in front, with Aunt Olya holding her beloved nephew Lev, young Olga (with Ada just behind) and Kachalov.

11. Lubyanka Square in Moscow before the First World War.

12. The future Olga Chekhova with a dog,
c
. 1913.

13. Lev Knipper in cadet uniform, 1912.

14. Cousins and friends in 1914: (back row) Misha Chekhov. unidentified, Volodya Chekhova; (front) Stanislavsky’s son Igor. Ada and Olga,

15. Members of the bourgeoisie trying to sell their possessions to survive. 1918.

16. Red troops on an armoured train in the civil war.

17. Olga Chekhova assaulted by a Red Guard in the controversial silent movie
Der Todesreigen
(
Dance of Death
, 1922).

18. Olga with Oskar Homulka (right) in
Brennende
G
renze
(
Burning Frontiers
. 1926), the film in which Hitler so admired her.

19. Olga, the rising star in Germany, with her Talbot convertible and chauffeur.

20. Olga the star of the first
Moulin Rouge
(1928).