Country Pleasure

Chekhov can rightfully be called the singer of suburban life: «Dacha Rules», «Dacha Woman», «Country Pleasure», «Dachniks», «At the Dacha» — and these are just the works where the word «dacha» is featured in the title.

The collection includes stories and sketches by the young Chekhov devoted to dacha life.

Fishing, swimming, forest walks, amateur performances, making music and singing romances, tea-drinking and wine-drinking on the veranda, long conversations past midnight, cheerful pranks, vaudeville adventures of lovers, — the book presents all kinds of dacha pastimes from a century ago that have changed little to the present day.