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Updated: June 19, 2025
ULYÁNA. Why are you giving yourself such airs all of a sudden, sister? Am I worse than you? You just wait awhile, you'll taste all that. We can clip your wings, too. KRASNÓV. Yes, but be careful. ULYÁNA. What are you saying? Married a beggar and you're putting on airs. Do you think that you've married the daughter of a distinguished landowner?
This was partly due to the fact that the Czechs and the Reactionaries, who had used the Czechs to screen their own organization, had control of the coalfields in the Urals, and partly to the fact that the German occupation of the Ukraine and the activities of Krasnov had cut off Soviet Russia from the Donetz coal basin, which had been a main source of supply, although in the old days Petrograd had also got coal from England.
In a word, our circumstances were such that she was forced to marry a petty shopkeeper. BABÁYEV. A petty shopkeeper? What kind of shop has he? LUKÉRYA. A vegetable shop. You can see it from here, the sign reads, "Lev Krasnóv." BABÁYEV. Yes, I noticed it. Is he a good man? LUKÉRYA. Considering the type, he's a very nice man, and he loves sister very dearly.
Why didn't you tell me about your character before? I wouldn't have married you. KRASNÓV. There's nothing bad in a man's being hot-tempered. That means that he's eager in all things, even in his work, and he can love better, because he has more feeling than others. TATYÁNA. Now I shall be afraid of you. KRASNÓV. I don't want you to fear me. But I should like to know when you are going to love me?
KRASNÓV. She petted me, fondled me, pressed me close to her heart. TATYÁNA enters quietly and looks around. The same and TATYÁNA KRASNÓV. Where have you been? Have you had a good time? Speak, don't hide it! Why are you silent? Speak! You see: everybody has come to view my shame. ULYÁNA. Why don't you talk, you shameless creature! You think you can get out of it by silence?
The kitchen and other common things belong to the household: the frying-pan, the handle, the oven fork. Isn't that low? KRASNÓV. Whether the oven fork is high or low, if you put the soup in the stove you've got to get it out. TATYÁNA. You might spare your wife before guests. KRASNÓV. I haven't insulted you a hair's breadth either before guests or without guests.
KRASNÓV. Now I can understand you. There were times when I didn't know just how to approach you whether you'd be pleased or not! TATYÁNA. You always please me. AFÓNYA. Come, Grandfather Arkhíp, let's go out on the street! ARKHÍP. As you wish; come on! Now, thank God, we again have peace and love. It's good when there's agreement in the house! KRASNÓV and TATYÁNA
Well, be off with you! Go to St. Petersburg, and good luck to you. Enter TATYÁNA and LUKÉRYA. KRASNÓV, TATYÁNA, and LUKÉRYA TATYÁNA. What are you doing? Why did you go and insult me so? KRASNÓV. There's no insult! Now, look here! We haven't quarrelled once since our wedding, and I hope that we may never do so, but may always live in love. LUKÉRYA. Fine love, I must say!
Who would want to lose such a wife? In the first place, it's just like tearing a piece out of his heart; and secondly with their taunts and reproaches they would give me no peace, drive me wild. I must tell you, I love you more than my soul, and I had no intention of abusing you, but how can I explain it? I can't help having notions. TATYÁNA. Don't have them. KRASNÓV. That's all over now.
I began to talk about your wife; that wasn't just for the sake of saying something. I love him," says she, "but I'm afraid of his temper. He seems to think me bad without any reason. I wouldn't exchange him for any one," says she. "I'd try to please him in every way, just so he forgives me and doesn't get angry." KRASNÓV. Is that true? ARKHÍP. Have you gone absolutely crazy?
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