".Shortly before appearance on the stage of "Thunderstorm" we took apart all works of Островского very in detail. Wishing to present description of talent of author, we paid attention to then the phenomena of Russian life, reproduced in his plays, tried to catch their general character to find out, whether such is sense of these phenomena in actual fact, what he appears to us in works of our dramatist. If readers did not forget, - we came then to the that result, that Островский possesses the deep understanding of Russian life and great ability to depict sharply and vividly her most substantial parties. A "thunderstorm" soon served new proof of justice of our conclusion".