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thought the play's plot was an ideal material for an opera, and insisted that
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The play was less successful than all of its predecessors. It ran one season (1854–55, four performances) in the Maly, then dropped from the theatre's repertoire to re-emerge in 1861. It was running in numerous provincial theatres, though, and in 1875-1917 was performed throughout Russia more than
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essay mostly used the play as a pretext to criticize the
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whom the idea of the hero's moral reformation was crucial. The libretto has been changed without
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