Russian Ark

The Stranger (The Marquis de Custine)

Sergey Dreyden

Catherine The Great

Mariya Kuznetsova

The Spy

Leonid Mozgovoy

Self (Hermitage Director)

Mikhail Piotrovsky

Orbeli

Edisher (Davit) Giorgobiani

Boris Piotrovsky

Aleksandr Chaban

Self

Lev Eliseev

Self

Oleg Khmelnitsky

Self

Alla Osipenko

Talented Boy

Artyom Strelnikov

Self (Blind Woman)

Tamara Kurenkova

Peter the Great

Maxim Sergeev

Catherine the Great

Natalya Nikulenko

First Lady

Elena Rufanova

Second Lady

Elena Kramer

First Cavalier

Konstantin Anisimov

Second Cavalier

Aleksey Barabash

Third Cavalier

Ilya Shakunov

Fourth Cavalier

Aleksandr Kulikov

Alexandra Feodorovna, Wife of Nicholas II

Anna Aleksakhina

Nicholas II

Vladimir Baranov

Princess Anastasia

Anna Antonelli

Military Official

Valentin Bukin

Museum Custodian

Svetlana Gaytan

Grandee of Catherine the Great

Vadim Gushchin

Master of Ceremonies

Kirill Dateshidze

First Card Player

Mikhail Dorofeev

Maid of Honor of Catherine the Great

Valentina Egorenkova

Museum Official

Oleg Efremov

Court Official

Sergei Losev

Lord Chamberlain

Vadim Lobanov

Court Minister

Vladimir Lisetsky

Servant of Peter the Great

Aleksandr Malnykin

Court Official

Kirill Miller

Court Official

Viktor Mikhaylov

Museum Official

Sergey Muchenikov

Court Official

Sergey Nadporozhskiy

Grandee of Catherine the Great

Yuriy Orlov

Museum Official

Aleksandr Razbash

Chancellor Nesselrode

Boris Smolkin

Second Card Player

Evgeny Filatov

Insane Italian

Yuri Khomutyansky

Marshall

Anatoliy Shvederskiy

Conductor

Valery Gergiev

Ambassador

Igor Volkov

Alexandra Feodorovna, Wife of Nicholas I

Svetlana Svirko

The Counterman

Konstantin Mukhin

Marie Sinclair (as Sandra Orlow)

Sasha Durpfen

Yuriy Ageykin

Alexandr Andreev

Dmitri Alexandrov

Alexander Alexeev

Andrey Arshinnikov

Ismat Ashurov

Artashes Aleksanyan

Dmitri Bekoyev

Oleg Palmov

Aleksandr Tsybulsky

Aleksandr Petrov

Serhii Romaniuk

Nikolay Gravshin

Konstantin Demidov

Anatoly Dubanov

Aleksey Emelyanov

Dmitriy Zebrov

Yefim Ioffe

Olga Kalmykova

Valentina Kasyanova

Yuriy Kalugin

Valeri Kozinets

Aleksei Krymov

Igor Okrepilov

Irina Osnovina

Valeri Smolyakov

Boris Sokolov

Nikolay Fedortsov

Valeriy Filonov

Darya Khudyakova

Vladimir Chernyshov

Andrey Shchepochkin

Anya Antonelly

Egor Bakulin

Olga Belyavskaya

Mark Gavrilov

Yekaterina Gorokhovskaya

Anna Ekaterininskaya

Sergey Yelikov

Aleksandra Kulikova

Nataliya Kadochnikova

Mariya Lavrova

Maria Mescheryakova

Artur Mkrtchyan

Aleksey Oding

Alla Oding

Kirill Petrov

Rodion Prikhodko

Andrey Rodimov

Yuliya Rudina

Elena Simonova

Kirill Ulyanov

Aleksey Fedkin

Boris Khasanov

Rosina Tsidulko

Yuliya Shubareva

Svetlana Nemirovskaya

Vsevolod Tsurilo

Nataliya Tarynycheva

Khelga Filippova

Vyacheslav Manucharov

Elena Savelieva

Anna Dyukova

Igor Besschastnov

Aleksey Vasilev

Mikhail Terentyev

Mikhail Sharautin

Sergey Peregudov

Yuliya Gorshenina

Gali Abaydulov

Roman Rolbin

Pavel Kornakov

Aleksandr Karpov

Vladimir Belovolsky

Alexander Balonin

Galina Burkina

John (voice)

Eyyup Can Ulas

The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)

Aleksandr Sokurov

Widow (uncredited)

Svetlana Smirnova

Court Official (uncredited)

Oleg Losev

Philipp Baron

Under-tutor of the Heir

Vladimir Sevostyanikhin

Yulian Makarov