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A play based on the final work of Alexander Ostrovsky, staged by the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya Russia’s most renowned playwright, Alexander Ostrovsky, wrote his last play while seriously ill. What final message did he hope to leave behind? Find out in this televised version of the production by the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, directed by Alexander Dunaev. Kseniya Vasilievna returns to Moscow to save her husband, accused of embezzlement at a private bank. But he is more interested in pleasures and sensual distractions. Meanwhile, her sister’s greedy suitor plots to gain their mother’s fortune entirely for himself. Kseniya’s moral purity and selflessness set her apart as a woman not of this world.