This play is one of the repertory plays of Russian theater – in the first year of production (1878) it was on the stage of seventy provincial theaters. The main interest of the audience was the triangular relationship conceived according to the plot as the basis of a dramatic intrigue.

Deti solntsa is a version of Children of the Sun by Russian writer Maxim Gorky, written in early 1905 and premiered on October 25 of the same year at Petersburg's Kommissarshevskaya Theater.