Her neighbor Lopakhin, a former serf, encourages her to chop down the orchard and divide the estate into parcels for middle-class people to build summer homes.
This is because Medieval society followed a feudal system that divided the clergy and nobility from the working classes, made up of peasants and serfs.
Florence Nightingale, the (inaudible) service, thank you very much, in public health, you know, but it also pushed Russia eventually into a reformist period with the emancipation of the serfs.