Easy Money

3 hrs. 40 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Alexander Ostrovsky

Narrator Stanislav Fedosov

Description

Love and money, selfishness and feelings—eternal themes, beautifully described by the great Russian playwright
Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky.

The capital beauty Lydia Cheboxarova is a young lady with claims, for whom real life is “where there’s glitter, men’s servility, and mad luxury.” She meets the provincial, slightly naive but pragmatic Vasilkov. Their conflict takes the form of a duel in which Cheboxarova’s “female feats” run into Vasilkov’s firm will: he wants to raise his wife and make of her a smart, practical mistress and a decoration of high society’s salon. “Taming the headstrong one” leads to the fact that he manages to knock all Lydia’s foolishness out of her head and make her live “within a budget.”