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"Pozdnjaja ljubov'" - p'esa Aleksandra Ostrovskogo (1823 - 1886), napisana v 1873 godu. Kogda-to Margaritov byl odnim iz samyh izvestnyh moskovskih advokatov, vel bol'shie dela. No pisar' vykral u nego dokument na dvadcat' tysjach, prodal dolzhniku, i Gerasim Porfir'ich obnishhal. Zhena umerla ot gorja, on i sam mechtal o smerti, no tol'ko iz zhalosti k malen'koj docheri Ljudmile ne zatjanul petlju. Proshli gody. Margaritov s vzrosloj docher'ju snimaet komnatu v bednom dome.

This play takes place in the 1900s in Russia, at a time when it was experiencing a severe economic crisis. A crowd of ruined peasants and workers roam the country and, in the end, sink to the "bottom". The desperate situation of these discarded from people's lives is taken advantage of by the owners of fetid cellars. In one such flophouse Mikhail Kostylev is ready to squeeze the very last penny from his unfortunate and disadvantaged guests. And there are further developments....

Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Nekhludoff, performing his public duty as a jurist on the district court, recognizes a defendant, a prostitute accused of murder and robbery, as Katyusha Maslova, who many years ago was a maid, and a pupil of his aunt's. It was Katyusha, with whom he was not even in love, that he seduced and abandoned....

Set in late-19th-century Russian high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.

Leonato, governor of Messina sun that in Sicily, welcomes in his house Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, who had arrived in the city accompanied by a retinue after the victorious conclusion of the war. Prince thanks for the hospitality and is Leonato two friends, two brave officers, young and noble Florentine Claudio and Signior Benedick of Padua.