Country life

摘要

In anton chekhov's play "The Cherry Orchard", Lopakhin, the nou-veau-riche businessman, begs the old-world landowner Ranevskaya to forgo the pleasures of fragrant white blossom every spring and let out her land as dacha plots in order that she can pay off her debts. "Dachas and dachniks-forgive me but that's so vulgar," Ranevskaya replies, thus giving voice to the Russian nobility's contempt for middle-class aspirations to country living.