My Apprenticeship

Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.

Drama

Aleksei Lyarsky

(Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky))

Irina Zarubina

(Natalya, the washer-woman)

Varvara Massalitinova

(Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina)

Elizaveta Lilina

(Matriona Ivanovna)

Ivan Kudryavtsev

(Sergeyev, the son-in-law)

N. Berezovskaya

(Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter)

Ye. Seleznyov

(Viktor Ivanov, son)

Darya Zerkalova

(The Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo"))

Aleksandr Timontayev

(Smury, the cook)

Mikhail Povolotsky

(Sergei, the ship's waiter)

Nikolay Gorlov

(Ship's Steward)

Mikhail Troyanovsky

(Grandfather Kachirin)

Vyacheslav Novikov

(Uncle Yakov Kashirin)

Nikolai Plotnikov

(Zhikaryov, icon painter)

N. Chugunov

(Ivan Larionovich)

Ivan Chuvelyov

(Sitanev, craftsman)

V. Terentyev

(Kapendiukin)

Vladimir Maruta

(Mitropolsky)

Nikolai Valbert