The picture compares the fate of two heroines Anna and her lively and energetic sister-in-law Vasilisa, who openly defies the old way of life.
Kuzma Yastrebetsky
Wassilij Schironin
Olga Narbekova
Matwejewna, his wife (as O. Narbekova)
Elena Maksimova
A soldier widow
Georgy Bobynin
Iwan
Emma Tsesarska
Wassilissa
Raisa Puzhnaya
Anna
Ivan Savelyev
Nicolai, the blacksmith
Gulya Korolyova
