
Second entry in Ukrainian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer (Alexei Lyarsky) was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.

as Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)

as Natalya, the washer-woman

as Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina

as Matriona Ivanovna

as Sergeyev, the son-in-law

as Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter

as Viktor Ivanov, son

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

as Smury, the cook

as Sergei, the ship's waiter

as Ship's Steward

as Grandfather Kachirin

as Uncle Yakov Kashirin

as Zhikaryov, icon painter

as Ivan Larionovich

as Sitanev, craftsman

as Kapendiukin

as Mitropolsky
