Top Cast
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Lydia Sycheva
Nilovna
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Ivan Bersenev
Pavel
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Aleksandr Cheban
Father
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Aleksandr Orlov
Andrey Nakhodka
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Vladimir Karin
Nikolay Ivanovich
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Ya. Volzhenin
Rybin
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Georgiy Sarmatov
Yegor Ivanovich
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A. Francescetti
Sasha
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Olga Obolenskaya
Lyudmila
Overview
Only fragments exist of this early version of Mat [Mother] by Aleksandr Razumnyj.
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Return
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