Easy Money

“Easy Money” is a five-act comedy written by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky in 1870. The play explores the theme of money and its influence on human relationships in post-reform Russia. At the center of the plot is the relationship between the calculating high-society beauty Lidiya Cheboksarova and the pragmatic businessman Vasilkov. Ostrovsky masterfully portrays the morals of a society where money becomes the measure of all values, and human emotions are subordinated to material interests.