The Storm

The city of Kalinov on the Volga. In the house of Kabanov’s merchants, a wedding feast was thundering. For Katerina, the young wife of the merchant's son Tihon, the painful, monotonous days of marriage are set in. The Katerina’s environment — severe and powerful mother-in-law Kabanova, weak-willed husband, cunning Varvara, thievish Kudriash.

Circumstances reduce the heroine with Boris, the nephew of the merchant Dikoy. He seems to her as a man of a different, better world. But she is afraid of the arising feeling. When Tihon leaves for Moscow and does not take Katerina with him, she approaches with Boris.


Pretty illustrations provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.