Aleksei Lyarsky

Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)

Ирина Зарубина

Natalya, the washer-woman

Варвара Массалитинова

Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina

Ye. Lilina

Matriona Ivanovna

Иван Кудрявцев

Sergeyev, the son-in-law

N. Berezovskaya

Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter

Ye. Seleznyov

Viktor Ivanov, son

Darya Zerkalova

The Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo")

Александр Тимонтаев

Smury, the cook

Mikhail Povolotsky

Sergei, the ship's waiter

Николай Горлов

Ship's Steward

Михаил Трояновский

Grandfather Kachirin

Vasili Novikov

Uncle Yakov Kashirin

Николай Плотников

Zhikaryov, icon painter

N. Chugunov

Ivan Larionovich

Иван Чувелёв

Sitanev, craftsman

V. Terentyev

Kapendiukin

Vladimir Maruta

Mitropolsky

Nikolai Valbert