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Peasants by Anton Chekhov. The parish church was nearly five miles away at Kosogorovo, and the peasants only attended it when they had to do so for baptisms, weddings, or funerals; they went to the services at the church across the river. On holidays in fine weather the girls dressed up in their best and went in a crowd together to church, and it was a cheering sight to see them in their red, yellow, and . There were five peasants -- the carriers -- a drunken saucy lot; horses, too, and dray-carts to see to, and then the fence would be broken or the soot afire in the chimney -- jobs beyond a woman, and through our being neighbours, she got into the way of turning to me for every little thing. Peasants. NIKOLAY TCHIKILDYEEV, a waiter in the Moscow hotel, Slavyansky Bazaar, was taken ill. His legs went numb and his gait was affected, so that on one occasion, as he was going along the corridor, he tumbled and fell down with a tray full of ham and peas. He had to leave his job.

The two wives are essentially no more than servants in their father-in-law's house. One day a traveler stops overnight in the village. Before going to bed, he relates the sad tale of Kuzka, his adopted son. The boy's mother was beaten by her husband. She subsequently poisoned him and, after being convicted of murder, died in prison. Literature Network» Anton Chekhov» Peasants. Anton Chekhov. Fiction. A Dreary Story. The Wife. Plays. A Tragedian In Spite Of Himself. Ivanoff. On The High Road. The Anniversary. The Boor. The Cherry Orchard. The Proposal. The Sea-Gull. The Three Sisters. The Wedding. Uncle Vanya. Short Stories. A Bad Business. Peasants. They are poor, dirty, noisy, lazy, drunkards -- but human beings. Chekhov doesn't spare anything in his description of the peasants. It's not a pretty picture. Yet, somehow, there is something majestic in village life. The air is pure and the people endure. They endure despite the poverty, the mistreatment by officials -- they do what.

Peasants. by. Anton Chekhov. · Rating details · ratings · 78 reviews. aka Mouzhiks. When Nikolay Tchikildyeev falls ill, he decides to return home to the countryside with his wife, Olga, and daughter, Sasha. However, when they arrive, his family’s hut is not the idyllic country retreat he remembered from his childhood, and many of the local peasants are brutish and unwelcoming. by Anton Chekhov. IN the village of Reybuzh, just facing the church, stands a two-storeyed house with a stone foundation and an iron roof. In the lower storey the owner himself, Filip Ivanov Kashin, nicknamed Dyudya, lives with his family, and on the upper floor, where it is apt to be very hot in summer and very cold in winter, they put up government officials, merchants, or landowners, who chance to be travelling that way. Peasants by Anton Chekhov. The parish church was nearly five miles away at Kosogorovo, and the peasants only attended it when they had to do so for baptisms, weddings, or funerals; they went to the services at the church across the river. On holidays in fine weather the girls dressed up in their best and went in a crowd together to church, and it was a cheering sight to see them in their red, yellow, and green dresses cross the meadow; in bad weather they all stayed at home.