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4 unusual facts about It's a Family Affair-We'll Settle It Ourselves


It's a Family Affair-We'll Settle It Ourselves

Governor Zakrevsky made a personal effort to support the staging of the play but suddenly the situation worsened.

Two weeks later it was staged by Maly Theatre in Moscow, Ostrovsky and the troupe (with Prov Sadovsky as Podkhalyuzin, making a forfeit of reproducing by gesture all those details cut out by the author) were given long ovation and several hundred people followed Ostrovsky and his friends to his house.

It was his first major work, written in 1849 and published in the No.6 (March, book 2) 1850 Moskvityanin issue.

At this time he met the now famous author Prov Sadovsky who saw the comedy as a revelation and started to recite in Moscow literary circles.



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