The Cavalry Maiden

Dmitry Savvatievich Dmitriev (1848–1915) was a Russian writer and playwright. Born in Moscow to a merchant family, he received a strict religious upbringing; he was taught to read and write by a nun. From the early 1870s, he worked in the library of Moscow University, simultaneously publishing short stories, essays, and scenes from folk life. In the 1880s, he turned to drama, writing plays for "fo...