Николай Черкасов

Czar Ivan IV

Серафима Бирман

Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

Павел Кадочников

Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

Михаил Жаров

Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

Amvrosi Buchma

Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Nikolay the Fanatic

Михаил Кузнецов

Fyodor Basmanov

Alexander Mgebrov

Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen

Андрей Абрикосов

Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)

Владимир Балашов

Pyotr Volynets

Eric Pyryev

Ivan IV as a boy

Михаил Названов

Prince Andrei Kurbsky

Павел Массальский

King Sigismund of Poland

Ada Vojtsik

Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother

Aleksandr Rumnyov

The Stranger (uncredited)

Sergei Stolyarov

(uncredited)

Semyon Timoshenko

Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador (uncredited)