The Magpie

Aneta, the serf actress of Knyaz Skalinsky, amazes with her beauty and talented performance of Shchepin. After the performance, a frank conversation ensues between them. The interlocutor learns that Skalinsky, pursuing the actress for a long time, gave her lover — a young actor of the troupe — to the soldiers for twenty-five years. After much deliberation, Shchepin decides to help the girl, but is too late...

Zinaida Kirienko

Aneta

Nikolai Afanasyev

Shchepin

Vladimir Pokrovskiy

Knyaz

Viktor Korshunov

Stepan

Anatoli Kubatsky

Ugryumov

Sergei Kalinin

manager

Aleksandr Grave

successor

Nikolai Shamin

landlord

Viktor Koltsov

authorized director of the Imperial Theaters

Ivan Lobyzovskiy

Knyaz's hairdresser

Pyotr Kiryutkin

prompter (uncredited)