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A Protégée of the Mistress (Vospitannitsa Воспитанница; also The Ward Girl) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky first published in the #1 January 1859 issue of Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya. In October 1859 it was banned from being staged by Imperial theatres and was premiered in Maly Theatre Moscow on October 21 1863.