Гроза. Бесприданница

V sbornik voshli dve, navernoe, samye znamenitye pʹesy Ostrovskogo - "Groza" (1859 g.) i "Bespridannit͡sa" (1878 g.). V obeikh pʹesakh opisyvaetsi͡a tragicheskai͡a sudʹba ikh geroinʹ. Dve razbitye zhizni. Dva pylkikh serdt͡sa. Dve pronzitelʹnye istorii li͡ubvi. I dve popytki vyrvatʹsi͡a iz zamknutogo kruga. Vo vremena Ostrovskogo "Groza" proizvela ėffekt razorvavsheĭsi͡a bomby, ne sluchaĭno kritik Dobroli͡ubov nazval ee geroini͡u "luchom sveta v temnom t͡sarstve". Nesmotri͡a na to, chto vremena pomeni͡alisʹ, pʹesy ne teri͡ai͡ut svoeĭ aktualʹnosti. Potomu chto khanzhestvo, pokaznai͡a dobrodetelʹ, ėgoizm i sebi͡ali͡ubie vsegda budut protivostoi͡atʹ iskrennim chuvstvam i nastoi͡ashchim poryvam dushi.

The collection includes two of Ostrovsky's most famous plays, probably The Thunderstorm (1859) and The Penniless (1878). Both plays describe the tragic fate of their heroines. Two broken lives. Two ardent hearts. Two poignant love stories. And two attempts to break out of the vicious circle. During Ostrovsky's time, the "Thunderstorm" produced the effect of an exploding bomb, it was not by chance that the critic Dobrolyubov called her heroine "a ray of light in the dark kingdom." Despite the fact that times have changed, the plays do not lose their relevance. Because hypocrisy, ostentatious virtue, selfishness and selfishness will always resist sincere feelings and real impulses of the soul.