Poverty is No Vice

Poverty is No Vice
Written byAleksander Ostrovsky
Date premiered25 January 1854 (1854-01-25)
Place premieredMaly Theatre in Moscow
Original languageRussian
GenreComedy

Poverty is No Vice (Bednost ne porok, Бедность не порок) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky, written in 1853 and published as a separate edition in the early 1854. It was premiered in Moscow's Maly Theatre on January 25, 1854 and in Saint Petersburg's Alexandrinsky Theatre on September the 9th.