The Power Of Darkness

The central character is a peasant, Nikita, who seduces and abandons a young orphan girl Marinka; then the lovely Anisija murders her own husband to marry Nikita. He impregnates his new stepdaughter, then, under his wife's influence, murders the baby. The Fruits of Enlightenment, aka Fruits of Culture is a play by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.