This play is one of the repertory plays of Russian theater – in the first year of production (1878) it was on the stage of seventy provincial theaters. The main interest of the audience was the triangular relationship conceived according to the plot as the basis of a dramatic intrigue.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Boris BelousovGavrila Panteleyevich Belugin | Gavrila Panteleyevich Belugin |
 Nadezhda ZhivotovaNastasya Petrovna | Nastasya Petrovna |
 Vasiliy BochkaryovAndrey Gavrilovich Belugin | Andrey Gavrilovich Belugin |
 Maya MengletYelena Vasilyevna | Yelena Vasilyevna |
 Yuri GrebenshchikovVasiliy Syromyatov | Vasiliy Syromyatov |
| NNatalya AntonovaTanya | Tanya |
| VVladimir AniskoNikolay Yegorovich Agishin | Nikolay Yegorovich Agishin |
 Arkadiy KruglyakProkhor | Prokhor |
| VVladimir KrasheninnikovServant | Servant |
| TTatyana SemichyovaNina Aleksandrovna Karmina | Nina Aleksandrovna Karmina |