During lectures on literature, evening student Sasha Mukhin, a subway driver, sleeps and dreams. In approximate accordance with the subject of the lectures, he either tries to prevent Pushkin’s duel with Dantes, either intervenes in the events of Spartak’s rebellion, or is present at Galileo’s abdication, then meets a person from the future and learns from him his future fate.
Mukhin
Lida / Lidiya / Livia
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Spartacus / metro train driver
Benckendorff / Titus Valerius / inquisitor
physics teacher / Galileo Galilei
senator / director / singing monk / storekeeper at St. Paul's Monastery
Claudius
equipment inspector / Roman drinker man / inquisitor priest / priest confessing Mukhin
student / Natalya Goncharova
student
Yevgeniya Nikolayevna
audience's janitor / Roman woman
Diogenes / Demosthenes / sculptor
student / Roman man
Nicholas I of Russia
