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.

• Mark DonskoyDirector
• Ilya GruzdevWriter
• Lev ShvartsOriginal Music Composer
• Mark DonskoyWriter

• Aleksei LyarskyAleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)
• Irina ZarubinaNatalya, the washer-woman
• Varvara MassalitinovaAkulina Ivanovna Kashirina
• Elizaveta LilinaMatriona Ivanovna
• Ivan KudryavtsevSergeyev, the son-in-law
• N. BerezovskayaIvanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter
• Ye. SeleznyovViktor Ivanov, son
• Darya ZerkalovaThe Rich Woman With Books (segment "like Queen Margo")
• Aleksandr TimontayevSmury, the cook
• Mikhail PovolotskySergei, the ship's waiter
• Nikolay GorlovShip's Steward
• Mikhail TroyanovskyGrandfather Kachirin