Andrei Popov as Chehov

Anatoliy Papanov as Startsev

Nonna Terentyeva as Katya

Lidiya Shtykan as Vera Iosifovna

Igor Gorbachyov as Turkin

Aleksey Batalov as Shergov

Aleksandr Borisov as Puzyrev

Grigoriy Shpigel as lawyer Losev

Yevgeni Shutov as Panteleimon

Olga Aroseva as Maria Chekhova

Leonid Bykov as Carter

Vladimir Volchik as Drunken

Olga Gobzeva as Teacher

Liliya Gurova as Anisya

Rina Zelyonaya as Authoress

Ivan Krasko as Author

Pantelejmon Krymov as Andryusha

Vera Lipstok as Wife of a sick man

Gitana Leontenko as Street acrobat

Lyubov Malinovskaya as Anfisa

Nina Mamayeva as Puzyrev's wife

Yuri Medvedev as Doctor Sveshnikov

N. Melnikov as

Aleksandr Orlov as Street musician

Valentina Pugachova as Nurse

Iya Savvina as Lady with a dog

Nikolai Sergeyev as Sick man

Aleksei Smirnov as Gentleman with pineapple

Lev Stepanov as Man in a case

Roman Tkachuk as Volsky

Oleg Khromenkov as

Georgiy Yumatov as Mikhail Makarovich

Stepan Krylov as Sinyukhin (uncredited)

Mariya Vinogradova as Jealous man's wife (uncredited)

Anatoli Stolbov as Player (uncredited)

Yuri Rychkov as Arkasha Losev (uncredited)