Boris Chirkov
Role: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Vasili Merkuryev
Role: Jacob Ulanov Ulyanich
Mikhail Derzhavin
Role: Gen. Vassili Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Pyotr Aleynikov
Role: Alexander Pushkin
Katya Ivanova
Role: Anna Petrovna Kern
Valentina Serova
Role: Maria Petrovna Ivanova Glinka
Klavdiya Polovikova
Role: Luisa Karlovna Ivanova
Nikolai Svobodin
Role: Baron Igor Feodorovich Rozen
Aleksander Sobolev
Role: Glinka as a child
Lev Snezhnitsky
Role: Ivan Nikolayevich Glinka
Elena Kondrateva
Role: Glinka's Mother
Mikhail Nazvanov
Role: Kostya, the Hussar
Mikhail Yanshin
Role: Petr Andreyevich Vyazensky
Mikhail Mikhailov
Role: Osip Afanovich Petrov
Viktor Koltsov
Role: Vladimir Fedorovich Odoyevsky
Vladimir Vladislavskiy
Role: Count Mikhail Yurelivich Vielgorsky
Elizaveta Antonova
Role: Avdotya Yakolevna Vorobyeva
Lydia Lipskerova
Role: Katerina Kern, as an adult
Boris Livanov
Role: Czar Nicholas I
Aleksander Shatov
Role: Aleksander Benkendorff
K. Rashevskaya
Role: Singer of "Antonida"
Mark Pertsovskiy
Role: Kavos, the conductor
Vladimir Druzhnikov
Role: Rileyev
Yevgeny Kaluzhsky
Role: Angry Old Man at Ball
Konstantin Bartashevich
Role: Maria Petrovna's lover
Sergey Kulagin
Role: "Dignitary"
Vladimir Uralskiy
Role: Vlas, partisan