Poverty Is No Crime

The author managed, through the prism of a family and everyday conflict, to show the important problems of Russian society of that time. He created vivid, recognizable characters both among the main and the secondary heroes. The life situations taken by the author remain relevant even today. Here there is philosophy, but without philosophizing: eternal truths about God, man, and the world are revealed through stage action—shown in the dynamics of human relationships. That is the very essence of Ostrovsky.