Third Place Books is thrilled to welcome filmmaker, photographer, and Chekhov scholar 
Serge Gregory 
for a discussion of his new book, 
The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre: An Actress, a Writer, and the Creative Life in the Silver Age of Chekhov
. 
Gregory will be joined in conversation by historian and translator 
Douglas Smith
. This event is free and open to the public.
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About 
The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre . 
.
Combining history and biography,
 
The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre
 
focuses on the intimate relationship and professional collaboration between two creative women in Russia's Silver Age (1880s–1920).
 The actress Lidia Yavorskaya and the writer Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik overcame moral and social boundaries to assert themselves as successful artists. Their lives intersected with practically all the major theatrical entrepreneurs and artists of the period in Moscow and St. Petersburg, most notably Anton Chekhov.
The opening in the 1880s of private theaters in Moscow and St. Petersburg resulted in an extraordinary flourishing of the dramatic arts, exposing theatergoers to the latest works by both Russian and Western European playwrights. In 
The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre
, Yavorskaya and Shchepkina-Kupernik serve as guides to this remarkable artistic and literary world. Serge Gregory shows how their success in fashioning independent careers reflects the emergence of the theater as one of the few professional paths available for educated women in nineteenth-century Russia who wished to escape the constraints of traditional family life.
Serge Gregory
 
is the author of 
Antosha & Levitasha: The Shared Lives and Art of Anton Chekhov and Isaac Levitan
. He has contributed chapters to two books: Chekhov’s Letters and Chekhov in Context. Gregory has also curated two evenings of staged readings at ACT Theatre as part of the Great Soul of Russia series organized by Seattle’s Seagull Project. His two-act play Sweet Lika, based on the correspondence between Anton Chekhov and Lidia Minizinova, premiered at ACT in June 2017. Gregory has a PhD in Russian Language and Literature from the University of Washington.
Douglas Smith 
is an award-winning historian and translator and the author of 
Rasputin
 and 
Former People
, which was a bestseller in the U.K. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has written for 
The New York Times
 and 
Wall Street Journal
 and has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, National Geographic, and Netflix. Before becoming a historian, he worked for the U.S. State Department in the Soviet Union and as a Russian affairs analyst for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He lives with his family in Seattle.
About Third Place Books
Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at 
thirdplacebooks.com/events
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