CHAPTER VI: THE DRAMA 191

Its origin--The Tsars Alexei and Peter I.--Sumarókoff--Pseudo-classical tragedies: Knyazhnín; Ozeroff--First comedies--The first years of the nineteenth century--Griboyedoff--The Moscow stage in the fifties--Ostróvskiy: his first dramas--_The Thunderstorm_--Ostrovskiy’s later dramas--Historical dramas: A. K. Tolstóy--Other dramatic writers.