Aleksei Lyarsky

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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