Ferapont – Door-keeper at the local council offices, Ferapont is an old man with a partial hearing loss. He repeatedly blurts out random facts, usually relating to Moscow. Commentaries to Three Sisters (Russian) // Чехов А. П. Полное собрание сочинений и писем: В 30 т. Сочинения: В 18 т. / АН СССР. Ин-т мировой лит. им. А. М. Горького. — М.: Наука, 1974—1982. / Т. 13. Пьесы. 1895—1904. — М.: Наука, 1978. — С. 117—188.

Several soldiers and an elderly family friend, Chebutykin, come to visit for the name-day celebration. One solider, Baron Tuzenbakh, shares Irina’s idealization of labor, and they discuss their longing to work someday. Masha, the middle Prozorov sister, is about to leave the dull party when a new Lieutenant-Colonel, Vershinin, is introduced. He is a married, philosophically inclined man in his 40s, and he knew the sisters’ parents in Moscow. The sisters introduce their brother, Andrey, and brag about his academic promise. In this book we meet three sisters who are just teenagers when the Nazis start rounding up people to send to concentration camps. Livia is the youngest, just fifteen when she?s sent to the formidable Auschwitz, and is followed by her protective older sister Cibi who is determined to stay together no matter what. Magda goes into hiding with their mother and grandfather, relying on the kindness of neighbours and surviving in the forest to elude capture. Wolf, Matt (27 May 1990). "Theater: Novel Casting for 'Three Sisters' ". The New York Times . Retrieved 16 June 2012. McMillan, L. (n.d.). The Three Sisters. The Hand Lens. Specimen Stories. New York Botanical Garden. http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/the-hand-lens/explore/narratives-details/?irn=7503.. Intercropping with legumes—that is, growing some leguminous crop between the rows of intertilled crops, such as corn or cotton—is the simplest system of growing crops for soil improvement. This practice is an inexpensive and easy means of increasing crop yields, yet, while common in many sections, is not followed to the extent that it should be. The continuous growing of any one intertilled crop on the same land for a succession of years is not good farm practice; but where this is the custom, as is the case in many sections, the practice of intercropping with legumes will frequently keep a sufficient supply of humus in the land to maintain crop yields.Agricultural Research Service. (2021 February 26). USDA Agricultural Research Service Sets Stage for Next-Generation Researchers. https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/2021/usda-agricultural-research-service-sets-stage-for-next-generation-researchers/. The multicultural research team of Lindsey Lunsford, Melvin L. Arthur, and Christine M. Porter provide a blunter view. Hart describes the archeological evidence tracing the practices behind this type of inter or polycropping of corn, beans, and squash.

Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow, a stage adaptation by Halley Feiffer that approaches the story through a contemporary lens, originally premiering in 2017. [26] [27] Hill, C.G. (2020). Returning corn, beans, and squash to Native American farms. The Conversation. Iowa State University. https://theconversation.com/returning-the-three-sisters-corn-beans-and-squash-to-native-american-farms-nourishes-people-land-and-cultures-149230. Taylor, Paul (27 January 2010). "Three Sisters, Lyric, Hammersmith, London". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 2022-05-07.The soldiers are preparing to leave the area. A photograph is taken. There is tension because Solyony has challenged Tuzenbach to a duel. Solyony had told Irina that he would kill any successful suitor for her hand, but she still agreed to marry Tuzenbach, notwithstanding which she confesses that she cannot love him. Tuzenbach, having left the Army, is under no obligation to agree to the duel but does so anyway, losing his life for what would have been a loveless marriage. As the soldiers are leaving, a shot is heard, and Tuzenbach's death in the duel is announced shortly before the end of the play. According to Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Ph.D. Administrator, Agricultural Research Service. U.S. Department of Agriculture, "in agricultural parlance, 'The Three Sisters' are crops planted together in a shared space: maize, beans, and squash…. Developed through [I]ndigenous agricultural practices, these three plants protect and nourish each other in different ways as they grow and provide a solid diet for their cultivators." Yanovsky, E. (1936). Food plants of the North American Indians. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Miscellaneous Publication, Number 237. https://archive.org/details/foodplantsofnort237yano. Three Sisters Act 4, Julius West's translation: "NATASHA: Mihail Ivanitch Protopopov will sit with little Sophie, and Andrei Sergeyevitch can take little Bobby out. ... [Stage direction] ANDREY wheels out the perambulator in which BOBBY is sitting."