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.
Top Cast
Vera Maretskaya as Varvara "Varenka" Vasilievna Martinovna
Pavel Olenev as Igor Petrovich, school custodian
Daniil Sagal as Sergei Dmitriyevich Martinov
Rostislav Plyatt as The Secondary School Headmaster
Ivan Ryzhov as гость Букова (нет в титрах)
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