A life-long story of a romantic school teacher who left imperial St. Petersburg for teaching country children. Driven by noble intentions to enlighten people and examples by 1880s revolutionary "People's Will" member teachers, a young woman spent her life in a village and evidenced the changes a Russian village has undergone from pre-revolutionary tsarist times to late 1940s.
as Varvara "Varenka" Vasilievna Martinovna
as Igor Petrovich, school custodian
as Sergei Dmitriyevich Martinov
as The Secondary School Headmaster
as гость Букова (нет в титрах)
as student of Varvara Vasilievna (uncredited)
as kulak (peasant)
as The priest, member of the committee (uncredited)
as Klim Voronov
