Aneta, the serf actress of Knyaz Skalinsky, amazes with her beauty and talented performance of Shchepin. After the performance, a frank conversation ensues between them. The interlocutor learns that Skalinsky, pursuing the actress for a long time, gave her lover — a young actor of the troupe — to the soldiers for twenty-five years. After much deliberation, Shchepin decides to help the girl, but is too late...
as Aneta
as Shchepin
as Knyaz
as Stepan
as Ugryumov
as manager
as successor
as landlord
as authorized director of the Imperial Theaters
as Knyaz's hairdresser
as prompter (uncredited)
