A Month in the Country

A Month in the Country, comedy in three acts by Ivan Turgenev, published in 1855 and first produced professionally in 1872 as Mesyats v derevne. The play concerns complications that ensue when Natalya, a married woman, and Vera, her young ward, both fall in love with Belyayev, the naive young tutor of Natalya’s son. The work, which is considered Turgenev’s dramatic masterpiece, presaged the psychological realism of Anton Chekhov’s plays.