It is based on Ivan Turgenev's 1872 play A Month in the Country (originally written as Two Women in 1855).

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Rakitin - a friend of the family, has long loved Natalya Petrovna.

Verochka, Natalya Petrovna's ward, also falls in love with Kolya's tutor Alexey.

[3] Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: Fiennes' superficial turn (in more ways than one, as his lines ended up overdubbed by a Russian voice actor) is hampered more by circumstances than ability: rather than playing on the multiple possibilities underlining Turgenev's once-transgressive comedy of manners, actress-turned-filmmaker Vera Glagoleva's 21st century take is a po-faced, straitjacketed affair, as she (and her screenwriters Svetlana Grudovich and Olga Pogodina-Kuzima) play out the entangled relationships as excessively affected period drama.

While certainly lushly mounted, Two Women is at best a piece of dated heritage cinema, and at worst cliche-ridden pomp.