Its origin--The Tsars Alexei and Peter I.--Sumarókoff--Pseudo-classical
tragedies: Knyazhnín; Ozeroff--First
comedies--The first years of the nineteenth century--Griboyedoff--The
Moscow stage in the fifties--Ostróvskiy:
his first dramas--_The Thunderstorm_--Ostrovskiy’s later
dramas--Historical dramas: A. K. Tolstóy--Other dramatic
writers.