Three years

“Three Years” by Anton Chekhov is one of the most mature, psychologically deep and realistic stories of the writer, devoted to the evolution of family relations, the nature of love and the struggle of man with the serrity of everyday life. In the center of the story – Aleksei Laptev, an intelligent, soft man, passionately in love with the young Julia Sergeyevna, the daughter of a provincial doctor. Julia does not experience a dirty feeling to him, but, afraid to remain a old virgin and giving up the circumstances, agrees to marry. The first years of a joint life in Moscow are filled with mutual alienation, domestic routine and searching for themselves: Laptev realizes that you will not be violently kind, and Julia has a marriage without love. However, time, heavy life trials, losses and gradual adulthood unpredictablely change their feelings, as if they change their spouses in places. Chekhov with his own jewelry accuracy shows how under the influence of time the illusions are destroyed, and a deep attachment, respect and quiet, meaningful family happiness can come to the replacement of a dirty passion or cold alienation.The "Three Years" is a thin and honest study of the human soul, proofing that life is not on the place, and real feelings require time and inner work. **About what the book in three words:** Time, Feelings, Marriage. **Who to read:** Lovers of thin psychological prose, fans of A. P. Chekhov's creativity, as well as everyone who is interested in honest and non-trivial stories about the development of family relations and the nature of human feelings.