Tuzenbakh and Vershinin discuss the meaning of life and happiness, Vershinin arguing that people must strive for eventual progress, even if they don’t live to see it. Irina hates her job and can’t wait to move to Moscow in June. Irina and Tuzenbakh also arrive together, since Tuzenbakh walks Irina home each day from her job at the Telegraph Office. Masha and Vershinin arrive together they have begun an affair. One evening in February, everyone is coming to the house for a Carnival party. His only confidant is his elderly servant, Ferapont. Andrey is secretary of the Distinct Council but still dreams about his abandoned hope of becoming a professor. They live in the sisters’ house, and Natasha runs things while Olga and Irina are at work. Over a year later, Andrey and Natasha are married with a baby boy. Andrey follows her, comforts her, and asks her to marry him. When Chebutykin teases her at lunch, she runs out of the room. Andrey’s girlfriend, Natasha, arrives late and awkwardly dressed. Tuzenbakh declares his love for Irina, but she doesn’t reciprocate. As the others sit down to lunch, Irina confides in Tuzenbakh that Masha is unhappy with Kulygin.

Not long after, Kulygin arrives and lavishes affection on his wife, Masha, who grumpily avoids him. The sisters introduce their brother, Andrey, and brag about his academic promise.Īs Vershinin speculates about the future transformation of society, Masha abruptly decides she’s staying for lunch. He is a married, philosophically inclined man in his 40s, and he knew the sisters’ parents in Moscow. Masha, the middle Prozorov sister, is about to leave the dull party when a new Lieutenant-Colonel, Vershinin, is introduced. One solider, Baron Tuzenbakh, shares Irina’s idealization of labor, and they discuss their longing to work someday. Several soldiers and an elderly family friend, Chebutykin, come to visit for the name-day celebration. Olga and Irina both hope they will soon move back to their beloved hometown of Moscow. In contrast to last year’s snowy, sorrowful day, today’s weather is sunny, and the sisters, especially Irina, feel hopeful. The youngest, 20-year-old Irina, is celebrating her name-day, and the eldest, 28-year-old Olga, recalls their father’s death one year ago today. On May 5th, the three Prozorov sisters sit in their drawing-room in a Russian provincial capital.

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