Without a Dowry (Russian: Бесприданница) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky premiered on November 10, 1878 at the Maly Theater and first published in the January 1879 issue of Otechestvennye Zapiski. Met with indifference by the contemporary critics, later it came to be regarded as a Russian theatre classic. Eldar Ryazanov had it adapted into a popular 1983 film.