Boyarynya Morozova

Dmitry Savvatievich Dmitriev (1848–1915) was a Russian writer and playwright, descended from a Moscow merchant family. Educated at home under strict religious supervision, he served in the library of Moscow University from the 1870s onward, simultaneously publishing short stories and essays. In the 1880s, Dmitriev became renowned as a writer of plays for "folk stages," and later turned to historic...