The play "The Lower Depths" at the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre

October 1-28, 1968. USSR. Moscow. Actress Lyudmila Ivanovna Ivanova as Kvashnya, actress Elena Yuryevna Millioti as Anna, actor Oleg Ivanovich Dal as Vaska Pepel (left to right in the foreground) and Honored Artist of the RSFSR Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev as Konstantin Satin (right in the background) in a scene from the play "The Lower Depths" based on the play of the same name by Maxim Gorky, directed by Honored Artist of the RSFSR Galina Borisovna Volchek and Honored Artist of the RSFSR Leonid Aristarkhovich Pchyolkin at the Moscow Sovremennik Theater. Mikhail Strokov/TASS