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