The Storm

The play “The Thunderstorm” (1859) is Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky’s most significant work. It is a vivid story of a desperate, tender soul; the story of love of a defenseless woman in a world of unworthy men. The tragic fate of Katerina, a young woman suffocating in the heavy circumstances of a patriarchal family, yearning for freedom—dreaming of light and liberty that are absent in her provincial town—was not by accident turned into a symbol of Russian life at the turning point between two eras.