One of Anton Chekhov's most celebrated dramatic achievements, "The Cherry Orchard," was the author's final piece. It tells the tale of an aristocratic Russian woman and her family who go back to their cherry orchard estate to supervise the estate's sale in order to settle the mortgage. Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" is a masterful depiction of the development of the middle class and the fall of the aristocracy that prevailed in Russia at the turn of the 20th century and finally sparked the Socialistic Revolution.