Word: irina
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...directress Maria Germanova, late of the Moscow Art Theatre. Perhaps the greatest exposition of the horrors of ennui, it introduces three daughters of a deceased Russian army officer who are compelled to remain in a slumbrous provincial town when they long for the bright Moscow of their imagination. Irina slowly shrivels a's she teaches school. Olga's devoted but unprepossessing lover is killed in a duel just after she has finally agreed to marry him. Masha's adulterous transports with a visiting lieutenant-colonel are ended when the regiment marches away. Maria Germanova plays Masha...