The Provincial Lady

"Along with «Where It Is Thin, There It Tears» and «Evening in Sorrento», «The Provincial Lady» especially vividly characterizes Turgenev’s innovative tendency "to break with the outwardly entertaining conventional vaudeville repertoire, opposing it with a comedic play lacking plot, intimate and psychological, full of inner movement hidden behind omissions and half-hints".

S. S. Danilov, author of the first Soviet history of Russian theater