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Year 10 Linguistics school went to one of the oldest districts of Moscow- Zamoskvorechie. This is where the great Russian playwright  Ostrovsky was born and lived. He was called the Columbus of Zamoskvorechie. He revealed the unusual, cryptic and sometimes even cruel merchant world for the readers.

The children found themselves  in the atmosphere of Russian everyday life of the second half of the 19th century, walked along small rooms, had a seat in the living room where long ago the visitors listened to the plays by Ostrovsky, saw the belongings and the portraits of the playwright and his loved ones, diaries, sketches of the costumes for the plays and other exhibits. Addresses, names, events, fates-the way of the writer, according to our feelings, contained the whole of Moscow. An hour and a half flew by, no one wanted to leave.

We went out convinced that Osrovsky’s time has not passed, but yet to come…

( Translated by  Oksana Nuzhdina,  English Department )