A Month in the Country

Month in the Country, A (Mesyats v derevne)

    Author: Ivan Turgenev

    Date Written: 1848–50

    First Performance: 1872, Moscow

    Published: 1855

    First English Translation: 1924

    Genre: Com. in 5 acts; Russian prose

    Setting: The Islaev estate, Russia, 1840s

    Cast: 6m, 2f, extras

The beautiful 29-year-old Natalia is married to a rich landowner Arkadi Islaev, seven years her senior. She is bored by life on their estate and so welcomes the attentions of Mikhailo Rakitin without letting their relationship develop into a romance. The arrival of the handsome 21-year-old student Aleksei Belyaev as tutor to her son suddenly breaks the boredom. Natalia falls in love with Aleksei, while Aleksei is attracted to Vera (Verotshka), the 17-year-old foster-daughter of the Islaevs. In order...

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