![]() ![]() Act I introduces many subplots: a romance between the tutor Trophimof and Anya, another hopeful romance between her sister Barbara and wealthy Lopakhin, a love triangle between the servants Dunyasha, Yasha, and Ephikhodof, the debt of the neighbor Pishtchik, the class struggles of Lopakhin and Firs, the isolation of Charlotte, etc. Her friends and family are overjoyed to see her. Dunyasha confesses a potential romance between she and Ephikhodof, but no one is interested.įinally, Madame Ranevsky returns. Firs has maintained the same post he always has, despite the Liberation. Another former serf, Firs, readies the house during Lopakhin's speeches. Lopakhin begins by telling the story of his own success: born a serf, he has managed to make himself a fortune. ![]() ![]() She has accrued great debts during her absence. She is now returning from France, where her abusive lover had robbed and abandoned her. She had fled the cherry orchard five years before, after the deaths of her husband and young son. ![]() The play opens in May, inside the cherry orchard estate friends, neighbors, and servants are preparing for the long-awaited return of Madame Ranevsky, the mistress of the house, and her daughter Anya. The action takes place over the course of five or six months, but the histories of the characters are so complex that in many ways, the play begins years earlier. The Cherry Orchard describes the lives of a group of Russians, in the wake of the Liberation of the serfs. ![]()
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