One week before her thirtieth birthday, the simple life of dutiful wife and mother Natalya is upended when the arrival of her sons charming new tutor unleashes a whirlwind of love, lust, and jealousy. This revelatory new translation by renowned playwright Richard Nelson along with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky—the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature, including the best-selling Oprahs Book Club selection, Anna Karenina—marks the second of a series of translations of important Russian plays to be published over the next ten years.