The Three Sisters (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- First Published: 1901
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic realism
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: Russia
- Principal Characters: Andrey Prozorov, Natasha, Olga, Masha, Irina, Fyodor Kuligin, Alexandr Vershinin, Baron Tusenbach, Vassily Solyony, Ivan Tchebutykin
- Genres: Impressionistic literature, Drama
- Subjects: Family or family life, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Middle classes, Marriage, Prejudices or antipathies, Brothers and sisters, Russia or Russian people
- Locales: Russia
The Story:
On Irina’s name-day, her friends and family called to wish her happiness. It was exactly one year since the death of her father, who had been sent from Moscow eleven years before to this provincial town at the head of a brigade. Irina and her sister Olga longed to go back to Moscow, and Masha would have liked to go too, except that she had married Kuligin, whom she once thought the cleverest of men. They all pinned their hopes on their brother Andrey now, who was studying to become a professor.
An old army doctor, Tchebutykin, brought Irina a samovar...
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