Aleksei Lyarsky as Aleksei Peshkov (later, Maxim Gorky)

Irina Zarubina as Natalya, the washer-woman

Varvara Massalitinova as Akulina Ivanovna Kashirina

Elizaveta Lilina as Matriona Ivanovna

Ivan Kudryavtsev as Sergeyev, the son-in-law

N. Berezovskaya as Ivanovna-Sergeyeva, daughter

Ye. Seleznyov as Viktor Ivanov, son

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

Aleksandr Timontayev as Smury, the cook

Mikhail Povolotsky as Sergei, the ship's waiter

Nikolay Gorlov as Ship's Steward

Mikhail Troyanovsky as Grandfather Kachirin

Vasili Novikov as Uncle Yakov Kashirin

Nikolai Plotnikov as Zhikaryov, icon painter

N. Chugunov as Ivan Larionovich

Ivan Chuvelyov as Sitanev, craftsman

V. Terentyev as Kapendiukin

Vladimir Maruta as Mitropolsky

Nikolai Valbert as