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