Drama on the Volga

The heroine loves her fathers 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