"The Boarder" (1848), "Breakfast at the Marshal of Nobility's" (1849), "The Bachelor" (1849), "A Month in the Country" (1850), "The Woman from the Rural Districts" (1851) are still acted and enjoyed by the public.
Alexei Feofilaktovitch Pisemsky (best known for his "Thousand Souls" and his "Troubled Sea," romances of a depressing sort) contributed to the stage a play called "A Bitter Fate" (among others), wherein the Russian peasant appeared for the first time in natural guise without idealization or any decoration whatever.
Count Alexei Konstantinovitch Tolstoy (1817-1875) wrote a famous trilogy of historical plays: "The Death of Ivan the Terrible" (1866), "Tzar Feodor Ivanovitch" (1868), and "Tzar Boris" (1870).

The above are the dates of their publication.

They appeared on the stage, the first in 1876, the other two in 1899, though they had been privately acted at the Hermitage Theater, in the Winter Palace, long before that date.

They are fine reading plays, offering a profound study of history, but the epic element preponderates over the dramatic element, and the characters set forth their sentiments in extremely long monologues and conversations.
There have been many other dramatic writers, but none of great distinction.
* * * * * Count A.K.Tolstoy stood at the head of the school of purely artistic poets who claimed that they alone were the faithful preservers of the Pushkin tradition.

But in this they were mistaken.