Yegor Bulychov and Others

A dining room in a prosperous merchant’s house. The furniture is massive and heavy. By the wall there’s a wide leather-upholstered sofa; next to it rises a staircase to the second floor. In the right corner, there is a lantern with an exit to the garden. Outside is a clear winter day. Ksenia sits at the table and rearranges the tea service. Glafira in the lantern busies herself among the flowers.

Alexandra enters: in a robe, in slippers without backs, tousled; her red hair looks like that of Yegor Bulychov…