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The beginning of The Three Sisters is marked by relative hopefulness. Irina is celebrating her name-day, and the sisters are no longer mourning the death of their father, which took place one year ago. However, even here, the sisters are unable to accept their circumstances with contentment. In describing her desire to be free of her exhausting teaching job, Olga defines Moscow—the sisters’ birthplace—as liberation from their lives in a provincial backwater. Throughout the play, “To Moscow!” becomes a refrain of hope for a more stimulating and successful life, far away from their present situation. While it makes sense that…