Young Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually demeaned by his martinet grandfather, Maxim is drawn to his warm-hearted grandmother, who instills in him the willingness to pursue his writing muse.
Aleksei Lyarsky
Varvara Massalitinova
Mikhail Troyanovsky
Yelizaveta Alekseyeva
Aleksandr Zhukov
