Когда на театральной сцене впервые была показана "Гроза" Островского?
In 1860 came out another play inspired by Ostrovsky's Volga voyage, "The Storm", a tragic story of unhappily married Katerina, dominated by the motif of impending hurricane which never comes, the latter interpreted by Dobrolyubov as a metaphor for the social change that the Russian society was now badly in need of. To help the play overcome the censorial barrier Ostrovsky made a trip to the capital and had hard time trying to put it to the censor Nordstrom that Kabanikha (Katerina’s vile mother-in-law) was not some caricature of the late Tsar Nikolai I. "The Storm" was premiered on 16 November 1859, as the actor Sergey Vasilyev's benefit, to enormous public acclaim.
16 November 1859