The play "The Decembrists" at the Sovremennik Theatre

August 1967. USSR. Moscow. Actors Oleg Nikolaevich Efremov as Emperor Nikolai Pavlovich (left) and Natalya Sergeyevna Katasheva as the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (right) in a scene from the play "The Decembrists" based on the play of the same name by Leonid Genrikhovich Zorin, directed by Oleg Nikolaevich Efremov at the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre. The exact date of filming has not been established. Mikhail Strokov/TASS