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A Bitter Fate (Russian: Горькая судьбина Gorkaya sudbina) also translated as A Bitter Lot is an 1859 realistic play by Aleksey Pisemsky. The play tackles serfdom in Russia and the social and moral divisions that it creates by means of a story that focuses on a provincial ménage à trois. With the exception of Leo Tolstoy’s The Power of Darkness (1886) it is the only major play to dramatise the experiences of peasants in the history of Russian realistic drama.
