Anton Chekhov’s The house with the mezzanine (A Painter’s story)(1896) revolves around a rather despondent landscape painter staying on a friend’s estate who gets into contact with a mother and her two quite different daughters, Lydia (Lida) and Zhenya (Missyuss) Volchaninova, living on a neighbouring estate, in the titular house with the mezzanine. (Goodreads)
