The heroine of Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky’s play “The Last Victim” is a young widow, Yulia Tugina. She fell in love with a scoundrel—an азартний gambler and idle-lounger, Vadim Dulchin. She spent all her fortune on him, and now she is ready for the “last sacrifice”—a desperate and humiliating step: to go to a rich merchant Pribytkov and ask him for money to save her beloved from a debt pit.
But the old man who is in love with Tugina knows very well what capital is needed to buy happiness.
The melodramatic story’s ending is beautiful and sentimental: opening Yulia’s eyes and curing her of that humiliating feeling, Pribytkov gives her his love and protection…