DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
SAVIL PROKOFIEVITCH DIKOY, a merchant, and personage of importance in the town.
BORIS GRIGORIEVITCH, his nephew, a young man of good education.
MARFA IGNATIEVNA KABANOVA, a rich merchant's widow.
TIHON IVANITCH KABANOV, her son.
KATERINA, his wife.
VARVARA, sister of Tihon.
KULIGIN, a man of artisan class, a self-taught watchmaker, engaged in trying to discover the secret of perpetual motion.
VANIA KUDRIASH, a young man, clerk to Dikoy.
SHAPKIN, an artisan.
FEKLUSHA, a pilgrim woman.
GLASHA, a maid servant in the Kabanovs' house.
AN OLD LADY of seventy, half mad, with TWO FOOTMEN.
TOWNSPEOPLE of both sexes.
The action takes place in the town of Kalinov, on the banks of the Volga, in summertime. There is an interval of ten days between the 3rd and 4th acts. All the characters except Boris are dressed in old Russian national dress.