The eldest son, who left for St. Petersburg, where he works as a detective, comes to the family of a crooked merchant and shopkeeper Grigory Tsybukin. Parents decide to marry him - his son is already 28 years old. They find a poor, but beautiful, clean and modest girl who meekly marries an already worn-out and balding man from the city, decently "laying by the collar". There is a merry wedding, and the husband leaves, leaving another worker in the family...
Released: Apr 13, 1994
Runtime: 94 minutes
Genre: Drama
Stars: Elena Korikova, Viktor Pavlov, Olga Volkova, Sergey Gamov, Sergey Yushkevich, Olga Shorina
Crew: Dmitriy Dolinin (Director), Vyacheslav Sorokin (Producer), Dmitriy Dolinin (Writer), Anton Chekhov (Short Story), Lev Kolganov (Director of Photography), Gennadiy Banschikov (Music)