This play is one of the repertory plays of Russian theater – in the first year of production (1878) it was on the stage of seventy provincial theaters. The main interest of the audience was the triangular relationship conceived according to the plot as the basis of a dramatic intrigue.
| Directing | Ivan Bobylyov | Director |
| Directing | Anna Cheremisina | Director |
| Directing | Boris Morozov | Director |
| Writing | Aleksandr Ostrovsky | Screenplay |
| Writing | Nikolay Ya. Solovyov | Screenplay |
| Sound | Mikhail Magidenko | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Oleg Gudkov | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Vladimir Kulikov | Director of Photography |