Act 2 — INCOMPATIBILITY OF TEMPER.
E. L. (Ethel Lillian) Voynich translation
PICTURES FROM MOSCOW LIFE.
By A. N. OSTRÒVSKY.
Picture I.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
Prèzhnev, an old man, completely in his dotage, official of high rank; has lost the use of his limbs; is wheeled about in a chair.
Sòfia Ivànovna Prèzhneva, his wife, aged forty-five.
Paul, a young man, her son.
Oustìnya Filimònovna Pereshìvkina, an elderly woman, formerly Paul’s nurse; now a kind of toady and hanger-on in several families.
A large drawing-room; very rich paper-hangings, grown old and shabby, peeling off the walls. Polished parquet, sunk and uneven. Windows, left, looking into garden. Door opening on wooden 73balcony, with pillars. At back of stage, a door leading to hall. Door, right, to inner rooms. In narrow niches, little marble tables with bronze legs; over them hang long narrow pier-glasses with gilded frames. Furniture old, heavy, with gilding rubbed off. Old bronze-work on tables. Glass chandelier with lozenge-shaped drops. Two or three ivy-screens. A general appearance of former luxury now become shabby.