Scenes from the Past (or Pictures of the Past; Russian: Картины прошедшего, romanized: Kartiny proshedshego, first published in English as The Trilogy of Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin) is a trilogy of satirical plays by Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin, written from 1854 to 1869.

The first play, Krechinsky's Wedding (Russian: Свадьба Кречинского), was written in 1854 during Sukhovo-Kobylin's imprisonment, premiered in 1855 and published in Sovremennik magazine in 1856.

As Sukhovo-Kobylin wrote himself, he only managed to achieve acquittal by means of giving enormous bribes to court officials and by using all of his contacts in the Russian elite.

The play was banned for staging by censorship until 1881, although it was published as a print with other parts of the trilogy in 1869 by Mikhail Katkov.

Russian literary critic Varvara Babitskaya compares it to Franz Kafka's absurdist works.