The Storm

The genius of literature Alexander Ostrovsky, the domestic Shakespeare and Molière, created an epoch-making chronicle of Russian society in the 19th century, piling up merchants and officials, their children and relatives on stage. Ivan Goncharov confessed to the playwright: «Only after you can we, Russians, proudly say: «We have our own Russian, national theater». Old orders, prejudices, poverty, vices, honesty, provincial melancholy mix in several acts of «The Storm» and reach a tragic finale at the end. For where else, if not into the water, is the doomed Katerina headed after betraying her worthless husband, not to mention into the storm?