Polikushka (Russian: Поликушка) is a 1922[1] Soviet drama film directed by Alexander Sanin, based on Leo Tolstoy's 1863 story of the same title: Polikúshka: The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant.

[2][3] It features the famous Moscow Art Theatre actor Ivan Moskvin in his first on-screen role.

As he is lulled to sleep by the wagon's rocking the cap slides from his head with the envelope falling to the wayside.

Polikushka dreams that he gloriously enters the mistress's house, gives over the envelope, receives thanks and the reward, and becomes elevated in his own eyes.

Returning home, he takes the rope from the child's cot and hiding from his wife goes up to the attic and hangs himself.