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.
Cast
Nikolai Valbert
Varvara Massalitinova
Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina
Elizaveta Lilina
Matriona Ivanovna
Aleksandr Timontayev
Smury, the cook
Mikhail Povolotsky
Sergei, the ship's waiter
Vyacheslav Novikov
Uncle Yakov Kashirin
Darya Zerkalova
The Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo")
Nikolai Plotnikov
Zhikaryov, icon painter
Vladimir Maruta
Mitropolsky
Irina Zarubina
Natalya, the washer-woman
Mikhail Troyanovsky
Grandfather Kachirin
Ivan Chuvelyov
Sitanev, craftsman
Aleksei Lyarsky
Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
Ivan Kudryavtsev
Sergeyev, the son-in-law
Nikolay Gorlov
Ship's Steward