Vassa Zheleznova (play)


Vassa Zheleznova is a play by Russian writer Maxim Gorky. He wrote and published the play in 1910. It was not performed until 1936 after Gorky wrote a new version in 1935.
The play was the basis of several films in the Soviet Union, e.g. the 1953 film of the same name, and in France and Germany.