The heroine loves her father's young steward. The appearance of her father, attempting to match her with a rich old man, makes her hide her lover under the featherbed, where he suffocates; An unwitting, almost anecdotal murder-- understandable familial insubordination turned deadly. Having found the corpse, mother and daughter in fear call the janitor, who hides the body in a barrel and throws it into the Volga river. The 'kindly' janitor, however, begins to blackmail the troubled women.

• DirectorNikolai Larin
• Release28 July 1913
• Genre
  Drama / Romance
• Duration0h 43m
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• Revenue?
• Rate
  

  5.0
  1 reviews
• Productions

  G.I. Libken, A. Ya. Braygen & Co