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Without a Dowry (Russian: Бесприданница) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky premiered on November 10 1878 on the Maly Theater stage and first published in the January 1879 issue of Otechestvennye zapiski. Met with relative indifference by contemporary critics later it’s gained the status of the Russian theater’s classics. Eldar Ryazanov had it adapted into a popular 1983 film.