Борис Чирков

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

Василий Меркурьев

Jacob Ulanov Ulyanich

Mikhail Derzhavin

Gen. Vassili Andreyevich Zhukovsky

Пётр Алейников

Alexander Pushkin

Katya Ivanova

Anna Petrovna Kern

Валентина Серова

Maria Petrovna Ivanova Glinka

Клавдия Половикова

Luisa Karlovna Ivanova

Николай Свободин

Baron Igor Feodorovich Rozen

Aleksander Sobolev

Glinka as a child

Lev Snezhnitsky

Ivan Nikolayevich Glinka

Elena Kondrateva

Glinka's Mother

Михаил Названов

Kostya, the Hussar

Mikhail Yanshin

Petr Andreyevich Vyazensky

Mikhail Mikhailov

Osip Afanovich Petrov

Виктор Кольцов

Vladimir Fedorovich Odoyevsky

Владимир Владиславский

Count Mikhail Yurelivich Vielgorsky

Elizaveta Antonova

Avdotya Yakolevna Vorobyeva

Lydia Lipskerova

Katerina Kern, as an adult

Борис Ливанов

Czar Nicholas I

Aleksander Shatov

Aleksander Benkendorff

K. Rashevskaya

Singer of "Antonida"

Марк Перцовский

Kavos, the conductor

Владимир Дружников

Rileyev

Yevgeny Kaluzhsky

Angry Old Man at Ball

Konstantin Bartashevich

Maria Petrovna's lover

Владимир Осенев

Кира Головко

Sergei Kulagin

"Dignitary"

Леонид Пирогов