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Another literary experiment by Boris Akunin, sort of a dramaturgical joke. It is actually the fifth, additional scene of Chekhov's famous play "The Seagull". Akunin almost wholly copies the ending of the fourth scene. And then, only with the help of substitution of stage directions, he offers the reader at once several variants of sequence of events. And every time the death of Chekhov's Treplev i...