A life-long story of a romantic school teacher who left imperial St. Petersburg for teaching country children. Driven by noble intentions to enlighten people and examples by 1880s revolutionary "People's Will" member teachers, a young woman spent her life in a village and evidenced the changes a Russian village has undergone from pre-revolutionary tsarist times to late 1940s.

Varvara "Varenka" Vasilievna Martinovna

Igor Petrovich, school custodian

Sergei Dmitriyevich Martinov

The Secondary School Headmaster

гость Букова (нет в титрах)

student of Varvara Vasilievna (uncredited)
kulak (peasant)

The priest, member of the committee (uncredited)


Status
Released
Type
Movie
Director
Mark Donskoy
Genres