Vera Maretskaya – MRQE

Svadba

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

According to the eponymous vaudeville by A.P. Chekhov. Petty bourgeois Zhigalovs, whose daughter-in-law Dasha is being extradited, find out to their horror that the official Aplombov, who has been caring for Dasha all summer, has dined every day with them and has proved himself to be his bridegroom, is not going to marry at all.

Selskaya uchitelnitsa

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A life-long story of a romantic school teacher who left imperial St. Petersburg for teaching country children. Driven by noble intentions to enlighten people and examples by 1880s revolutionary “People’s Will” member teachers, a young woman spent her life in a village and evidenced the changes a Russian village has undergone from pre-revolutionary tsarist times to late 1940s.

Zori Parizha

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“Paris Commune,” 1870-1871. Poor working class in Paris rises up against their oppressors as France is defeated by Germany in the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian war.

Dom na Trubnoy

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Life is short and full of oppression, but that doesn’t mean Parasha can’t find love and laughter when she leaves her country home to take a job as a maid in the overcrowded, overworked, and underpaid world in the big city.