# Yasha — The Cherry Orchard character guide

> Yasha in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Yasha Handing Lyubov Andreyevna

**First appearance:** 0002-act-i

## Snapshot

A young footman back from Paris who yawns at Russia, lights cigars in company, and treats the old estate as a place to be endured.

## Who they are

Yasha has tasted a wider world and returned with contempt for everything provincial, including the people who raised him. He flirts carelessly with Dunyasha, dismisses his mother's visits, and speaks of foreign lands as if they were a personality. His casual cruelty and upward gaze embody the new mobility that is dissolving the old estate from the inside, long before anyone sells a tree.

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