A Brief Summary of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters:

 

A year after the death of their father, an army officer, the Moscow-bred sisters Prosorov--Olga, Masha and Irina--are finding life drab and increasingly hopeless in a Russian provincial town. Only the proximity of a nearby artillery post and the company of its officers make their existence bearable.

 

Olga, the eldest, twenty-eight, is a teacher at the high school; [...] Masha, little more than twenty, is married to Kuligan, [...]. Irina, at twenty, dreams of finding happiness and love in Moscow. A brother, Andrey, a scholar, is in love with Natasha, twenty-eight, [...].

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