Plays by Alexander Ostrovsky | Alexander Ostrovsky
Plays by Alexander Ostrovsky: A Protegee of the Mistress Poverty is No Crime Sin and Sorrow Are Common to All It's a Family Affair - We'll Settle It Ourselves. Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886) was an early Russian Realist whose work led to the founding of the Moscow Arts Theatre and to the career of Stanislavsky. He has been acknowledged to be the greatest of the Russian dramatists. The Storm is the most poetical of his works.