The Snow Maiden (play)

The Snow Maiden
Written byAlexander Ostrovsky
Date premiered11 May 1873 (1873-05-11)
Place premieredBolshoy Theatre
Original languageRussian
GenreFairytale

The Snow Maiden (Russian: Снегурочка, Snegurochka) is a play in verse by Alexander Ostrovsky written in 1873 and first published in the September 1873 issue of Vestnik Evropy. It was adapted into an opera of the same name by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which premièred in 1882.