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Краткое содержание: Пьесы Антона Чехова. Вторая серия
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Three sisters dream of Moscow while a family clings to a cherry orchard that its debts are about to take.
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Пьесы Антона Чехова. Вторая серия in short
This book moves from the briskest farce to the quietest sorrow. In the short plays, pride, nerves and money turn a proposal, a wedding supper, a debt and a bank anniversary into uproar. Each time the laugh carries a small ache.
What Пьесы Антона Чехова. Вторая серия is about
A ruined landowner begs for one more glass of vodka in a roadside inn, and the room goes quiet when a woman in a travelling coat walks in. Who is she, and why does a tramp with an axe stare at her so hard?
Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series gathers eight stage works from Russia around the turn of the twentieth century. Six are short comedies and studies, and two are full plays, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. Chekhov was a doctor, and he watches people the way a doctor listens to a chest, closely and without scolding.
Для кого. This collection suits readers who enjoy sharp, funny dialogue, people who talk past one another, and stories about love, money and homesickness. It is a good match for theatre lovers.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A stormy night inn gathers lost souls
The first play is set in Tihon's inn on a main road in southern Russia, late at night, in a thunderstorm. Pilgrims, labourers and passersby crowd the floor, and people who have lost their place in the world end up in the same room.
Semyon Bortsov, once a rich landowner, begs the innkeeper for vodka. He offers his cap, then his coat, and at last a gold medallion holding a lady's portrait. A driver named Kusma tells the room how Bortsov married a town woman who rode off to a lawyer on the night of the wedding.
Around him sits Egor Merik, a tramp with a stolen axe and a grudge against women. He mocks the pilgrims, yet later gives his own place to the drunk gentleman. Chekhov lets cruelty and kindness live in one man. Then a lady comes in to wait while her carriage spring is mended, and Bortsov looks up and sees who she is.
Even in a rough inn, every shabby stranger carries a whole history of loss.
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A marriage offer dissolves into a quarrel over meadows
The Proposal opens with Ivan Lomov, a nervous landowner in evening dress and white gloves.
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A wedding supper needs a general and finds trouble
The Wedding is set in a private room at a restaurant, where the supper after Dashenka's marriage to Epaminond Aplombov is about to begin.
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A creditor and a widow trade insults and pistols
In The Bear, Elena Popova, a young widow, has shut herself in mourning for seven months.
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Two one-acts turn small annoyances into chaos
In A Tragedian in Spite of Himself, Tolkachov bursts into his friend Murashkin's study loaded with parcels and asks to borrow a revolver.
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Three sisters long for Moscow on a name day
The Three Sisters is set in a provincial town, in the house of the Prosorov family.
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Love, debt and fire wear down the Prosorov house
By the second act, Natasha has married Andrey, and the house begins to turn toward her.
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Ranevsky comes home to an estate near auction
The Cherry Orchard opens before sunrise in May in the old nursery.
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Two answers to the future clash among the trees
In the second act, in a field beside an old shrine, the family hears the plan again.
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Chekhov hides sorrow inside ordinary talk
Chekhov writes lines that seem to wander.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Irina Prosorov The youngest of the three sisters, she longs for meaningful work and for a return to Moscow, where she hopes to find true love.
- Olga Prosorov The eldest sister, a tired high school teacher who keeps the family together and quietly wishes for a home of her own.
- Masha Kuligin The middle sister, restless in her marriage to a schoolteacher, she finds her feelings stirred by a visiting officer.
- Vershinin A lieutenant colonel from Moscow who loves to philosophize about a happier future and is trapped in an unhappy marriage.
- Lubov Ranevsky A generous, scatterbrained landowner who returns from Paris to an estate she loves but cannot afford to keep.
- Lopakhin A rich merchant, son of a serf, who wants to rescue the family with a practical plan, and who still loves the house.
- Trofimov A poor, idealistic student who preaches work and freedom, and who once tutored Lubov's drowned son.
- Smirnov A hot-tempered landowner who storms into a widow's house to collect a debt and unexpectedly falls in love with her.
How it ends (spoiler)
In On the High Road, Merik swings his axe at the lady but harms no one, and he sobs for pity. The Proposal ends with Lomov and Natalya engaged and still quarrelling. In The Bear, Popova and Smirnov kiss. In The Three Sisters, Baron Tuzenbach is killed in a duel, and the sisters resolve to go on living and working. In The Cherry Orchard, Lopakhin buys the estate, the family leaves, and Fiers is left behind in the locked house.
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Вопросы о книге Пьесы Антона Чехова. Вторая серия
What plays are in Chekhov's Plays, Second Series?
The book holds eight plays: On the High Road, The Proposal, The Wedding, The Bear, A Tragedian in Spite of Himself, The Anniversary, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. Six are short one-act pieces, and two are full-length plays in four acts.
What is The Three Sisters about?
It follows Olga, Masha and Irina Prosorov, who live in a provincial town and long to return to Moscow. Their brother, their loves and the officers stationed nearby shape their days as they wait for a better life.
What does the cherry orchard stand for in The Cherry Orchard?
The orchard stands for a family's past, its childhood memories and its old way of life. Some characters see only beauty in it, and others see a chance for profit, so it becomes a symbol of changing Russia.
Are the short plays funny to read?
Most of the one-acts are lively comedies built on quarrels, misunderstandings and comic speeches; On the High Road is darker. The Proposal, The Bear and The Wedding move quickly, with sharp dialogue that works well when read aloud.
Why do the sisters keep saying they want to go to Moscow?
Moscow is their childhood home and stands for the happier, more useful life they feel they have lost. Their repeated wish shows how a dream of elsewhere can fill the place of present choices.
Как сослаться на это издание
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich. Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/plays-by-anton-chekhov-second-series.
Chekhov, A. P. (2026). Plays by Anton Chekhov, second series. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/plays-by-anton-chekhov-second-series
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich. Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/plays-by-anton-chekhov-second-series.
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