In the Siberian taiga village of Wolf's Burrows, the Strogov family lives — Matvey with his wife Anna and his parents. Through the fate of this peasant family, a picture of the life of the Siberian region during major historical events — the Russo-Japanese War, the 1905 Revolution, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War is outlined.

• Lenfilm
• Boris Borisov
• Lyudmila Zaytseva
• German Novikov
• Sergei Medvedskiy
• Lyudmila Arinina
• Valeriy Barinov
• Andrei Brusnitsyn
• Aleksei Plavinskiy