Russian playwright Aleksandr Ostrovsky's wrote his best-known work "Groza," or "The Storm" after a visit to the headwaters of the Volga River. Its premiere in Moscow on this date resulted in Ostrovsky winning the prestigious Uvarov Prize. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Victor Terras, Handbook of Russian Literature (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990), 325.