Russia As It Is is a 1882 Australian play by F. R. C. Hopkins based on the Jules Verne novel Michael Strogoff.
"[4] The Riverine Herald said "it is not a play with an attractive story, nor is it a good acting drama.
[6] The Age said the story "has been covered up by superficial layers of nonsensical rubbish that the original is hardly recognisable.
The adapter of tho original should le prosecuted for literary murder as well as piracy...
The play has had a witless, pointless, aimless farce of tho most vapid order grafted on it, like a patch on the cheek of beauty, and the result is far from legitimate.