The fault is guilty. Ostrovsky A.N.

Young, subtly feeling women and powerful elderly ladies, familiar to manage other people's lives with an iron grip of experienced commanders. Cunning and dexterous intriguers, leading a thin game for the sake of a sweet piece, and strong, aggressive dealers with steel jaws, sweeping away all in their path to success and profit. Actresses, like fish in water floating in the world of backstage intrigues, and their patrons, for whom the connection with the Star of the stage is a prestigious indicator of wealth and power. The daring young intellectuals, obviously playing cynicism and hatred of the entire white light, and supporters of “theory of small deeds”, calmly opposing universal greed and hypocrisy, bribery and corruption...

are the characters of Ostrovsky in the plays included in the plays included In this collection. Images, both dramatic and comic, have been created by him for a very long time, but even now they are still completely recognizable and still modern.