
Second entry in Ukrainian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer (Alexei Lyarsky) was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.

Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)

Natalya, the washer-woman

Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina
Matriona Ivanovna

Sergeyev, the son-in-law
Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter