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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Storm, by Aleksandr Nicolaevich Ostrovsky Copyright laws are changing all over the world. <...> Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. <...> This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. <...> Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. <...> Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. <...> You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved. **Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** **eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** *****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!***** Title: The Storm Author: Aleksandr Nicolaevich Ostrovsky Release Date: April, 2005 [EBook #7991] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on June 10, 2003] Edition: 10 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-Latin-1 *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORM *** Produced by Eric Eldred, S.R.Ellison and the DP Proofreading Team THE STORM BY OSTROVSKY [Aleksandr Nicolaevich Ostrovsky] TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE GARNETT INTRODUCTION Up to the years of the Crimean War Russia was always a strange, uncouth riddle to the European consciousness. <...> It would be an interesting study to trace back through the last three centuries the evidence of the historical documents that our forefathers have left us when they were brought face to face, through missions, embassies, travel, and commerce, with the fantastic life, as it seemed to them, led by the Muscovite. <...> And this sentiment has prevailed to-day, side by side with the better understanding we have gained of Russia. <...> Nor can this conception, generally held among us, which is a half truth, be removed by personal contact or mere objective study; for example, of the innumerable memoirs published on the Crimean war, it is rare to find one that gives us any real <...>