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Scene 1

[The scene represents the village street. To the left the outside of Peter's hut, built of logs, with a porch in the middle; to the right of the hut the gates and a corner of the yard buildings. Anísya is beating hemp in the street near the corner of the yard. Six months have elapsed since the First Act.]

ANÍSYA [stops and listens] Mumbling something again. He's probably got off the stove.