

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...
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Cast

Zinaida Kirienko
Aneta

Nikolai Afanasyev
Shchepin

Vladimir Pokrovskiy
Knyaz

Viktor Korshunov
Stepan

Anatoliy Kubatskiy
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)
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