The film covers the events of 1896-1905 - from the first revolutionary gatherings to the armed Moscow uprising of workers at Krasnaya Presnya, later called Bloody Sunday. St. Petersburg students Alexander Mikhailov and Yevgeny Svetlov and a peasant girl Varvara Postnikova arrive in Moscow and follow the complicated path of underground revolutionaries.

Yevgeni Svetlov

Aleksandr Mikhajlov (as B. Shchukhin)

Varvara Postnikova

Professor

Stepan Klimov

Niko Gotserkinsky

Gendarme general

Akim Ivanovich, city patrolman

Roza Stein

Widow