On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.
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Anna Petrovna Voinitseva
Yuri Bogatyryov
Sergey Pavlovich Voinitsev
Oleg Tabakov
Pavel Petrovich Shcherbuk
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Porfiry Semyonovich Glagolyev
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Ivan Ivanovich Triletsky
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Anatoliy Romashin
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