After their father8217s death, Olga, Masha, and Irina find life in their small Russian town stifling and hopeless They long to return to Moscow, the bustling metropolis they left eleven years ago, but their brother Andrei8217s gambling habits have trapped them in their small provincial lives As the seventh play in the TCG Classic Russian Drama Series, playwright Richard Nelson and translators of Russian literature Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky continue their collaboration with a masterful new translation of Chekhov8217s exploration of yearning and disillusionment