
A rural teacher, whose letters to Leo Tolstoy are read in the movie, sees the meaning of his work not just in teaching children to read and write, but in the education of human personality.

Vyacheslav Baranov
Teacher

Valentin Smirnitskiy

Rimma Markova
Feliksas Einas

Svetlana Tormakhova
Elena Mikhailova

Aleksandr Sayko

Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Fyokla Tolstaya
(as Anna Tolstaya)
Inna Zolnikova
Mikhail Svirin
(as Misha Svirin)
Leonid Porter
(as Lyonya Porter)
Alexey Bolshakov
(as Lyosha Bolshakov)

Aleksandr Dobrikov
(as Sasha Dobrikov)
Aleksei Shabanov
(as Lyosha Shabanov)