"The Seagull" was Chekhov's first big play, which brought him noisy success. According to Gorky, the life described by Chekhov in The Seagull has risen to a new height to a "spiritualized and deeply thought out symbol."

The play was the first classical work, taken for rethinking and modern embodiment in our theater. It is presented as a psychological drama in which all the heroes feel constant dissatisfaction and cannot find reassurance against the background of the mystery of life and the concealment from them of the meaning and reason for their being.