This play is one of the repertory plays of Russian theater – in the first year of production (1878) it was on the stage of seventy provincial theaters. The main interest of the audience was the triangular relationship conceived according to the plot as the basis of a dramatic intrigue.

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Cast

Boris Belousov

Gavrila Panteleyevich Belugin

Nadezhda Zhivotova

Nastasya Petrovna

Vasiliy Bochkaryov

Andrey Gavrilovich Belugin

Maya Menglet

Yelena Vasilyevna

Yuri Grebenshchikov

Vasiliy Syromyatov

Arkadiy Kruglyak

Prokhor