Overview
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.
Cast
- Aleksei Lyarsky as Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
- Irina Zarubina as Natalya, the washer-woman
- Varvara Massalitinova as Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina
- Elizaveta Lilina as Matriona Ivanovna
- Ivan Kudryavtsev as Sergeyev, the son-in-law
- N. Berezovskaya as Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter
- Ye. Seleznyov as Viktor Ivanov, son
- Darya Zerkalova as The Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo")
- Aleksandr Timontayev as Smury, the cook
- Mikhail Povolotsky as Sergei, the ship's waiter