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''Wolves and Sheep'' (russian: Волки и овцы) is a play by
ВОЛКИ И ОВЦЫ
/ref> Young, beautiful and wealthy widow Kupavina dreams of happiness and love. She has no idea what passions boil around her. Many haunted her wealth, vast forests, beautiful name. The imperious and ambitious landowner Murzavetskaya trying to take over the property Kupavina. By deception, fraud, intimidation Murzavetskaya trying to subdue the young widow. It also has plans to marry her of his dissolute nephew. And that it is almost possible. But there is more cunning, more shrewd and intelligent man, who for a long time and liked the pretty widow, and its capital. It Berkutov - Kupavina's neighbor. He enters into a decisive duel with cunning and fraudsters - Murzavetskaya and its obsequious entourage, directing for action at the right, advantageous only to him on track. As a result, he wins.
Волки и овцы
Волки и овцы (Малый театр, 1973г.)
Plays by Alexander Ostrovsky 1875 plays Comedy plays
''Wolves and Sheep'' (russian: Волки и овцы) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky
Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Остро́вский; ) was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 origina ...
. It was written in 1875, and published in the journal Otechestvennye Zapiski
''Otechestvennye Zapiski'' ( rus, Отечественные записки, p=ɐˈtʲetɕɪstvʲɪnːɨjɪ zɐˈpʲiskʲɪ, variously translated as "Annals of the Fatherland", "Patriotic Notes", "Notes of the Fatherland", etc.) was a Russian lite ...
, №11, the same year. It was staged for the first time in St. Petersburg, December 8, 1875 in the Alexandrinsky Theatre
The Alexandrinsky Theatre (russian: Александринский театр) or National Drama Theatre of Russia is a theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The Alexandrinsky Theatre was built for the Imperial troupe of Petersburg (Imperial tr ...
. It premiered in Moscow the same year on December 26, at the Maly Theatre The Maly Theatre, or Mali Theatre, may refer to one of several different theatres:
* The Maly Theatre (Moscow), also known as The State Academic Maly Theatre of Russia, in Moscow (founded in 1756 and given its own building in 1824)
* The Maly Thea ...
.
Plot
The action comedy takes place in a small provincial Russian city in the 1870s./ref> Young, beautiful and wealthy widow Kupavina dreams of happiness and love. She has no idea what passions boil around her. Many haunted her wealth, vast forests, beautiful name. The imperious and ambitious landowner Murzavetskaya trying to take over the property Kupavina. By deception, fraud, intimidation Murzavetskaya trying to subdue the young widow. It also has plans to marry her of his dissolute nephew. And that it is almost possible. But there is more cunning, more shrewd and intelligent man, who for a long time and liked the pretty widow, and its capital. It Berkutov - Kupavina's neighbor. He enters into a decisive duel with cunning and fraudsters - Murzavetskaya and its obsequious entourage, directing for action at the right, advantageous only to him on track. As a result, he wins.
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Волки и овцы
Волки и овцы (Малый театр, 1973г.)
Plays by Alexander Ostrovsky 1875 plays Comedy plays