Dramatic trilogy A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817-1903) is published according to the text of the 1869 edition, which for the first time combined three plays into a single work of art - "Paintings of the Past" - taking into account amendments made to subsequent editions. Corrected numerous errors of the 1927 edition, edited by L.P. Grossman, and the volume of the Library of World Literature (1974).