Seeking to identify 3 short stories

[Deborah Hoffman]

Dear Seelangovtsy,
I'm wondering if any of you could help me identify the following stories from the plot line.
 
1.Told from the perspective of a young boy whose father tenderly knots a scarf around his neck before leaving for work in the morning, saying "So you won't be cold, malysh." One day the boy follows the father and sees his father performing the same action with the same words with his mistress and realizes the falsehood in life.
2.An old woman lives in a village and realizes her death is near when a maple tree taps on her window. Her daughter lives in the city and a peasant who did work for the mother must travel to the city to tell her of the death. He calls the mother Katerina Ivanovna (I think) and so at first the daughter doesn't realize of whom he's speaking. At the station they tell her there are no tickets but when she begins crying it turns out the train is empty and she's permitted to ride. She goes home and cries on the grave the entire night having missed the funeral.
3.A group of hunters goes out one day for what should be a good "hunting story." But their destruction and disrespect for the countryside turn the story into a satire on bucolic depictions of village life. I remember the word voniuchii sticking out describing something at the "feast" they have, perhaps the wine, perhaps something else
 
Thanks for any help. Once upon a time they were being used by Galina McLaws at Indiana University in her undergraduate teaching, and I'd like to read them again as an adult (?).
 


Deborah Hoffman
Modern and Classical Language Studies
Vice-Chair, Graduate Student Senate
Kent State University


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