The Great Glinka

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

Boris Chirkov

Jacob Ulanov Ulyanich

Vasili Merkuryev

Gen. Vassili Andreyevich Zhukovsky

Mikhail Derzhavin

Alexander Pushkin

Pyotr Aleynikov

Anna Petrovna Kern

Katya Ivanova

Maria Petrovna Ivanova Glinka

Valentina Serova

Luisa Karlovna Ivanova

Klavdiya Polovikova

Baron Igor Feodorovich Rozen

Nikolai Svobodin

Glinka as a child

Aleksander Sobolev

Ivan Nikolayevich Glinka

Lev Snezhnitsky

Glinka's Mother

Elena Kondrateva

Kostya, the Hussar

Mikhail Nazvanov

Petr Andreyevich Vyazensky

Mikhail Yanshin

Osip Afanovich Petrov

Mikhail Mikhailov

Vladimir Fedorovich Odoyevsky

Viktor Koltsov

Count Mikhail Yurelivich Vielgorsky

Vladimir Vladislavskiy

Avdotya Yakolevna Vorobyeva

Elizaveta Antonova

Katerina Kern, as an adult

Lydia Lipskerova

Czar Nicholas I

Boris Livanov

Aleksander Benkendorff

Aleksander Shatov

Singer of "Antonida"

K. Rashevskaya

Kavos, the conductor

Mark Pertsovskiy

Rileyev

Vladimir Druzhnikov

Angry Old Man at Ball

Yevgeny Kaluzhsky

Maria Petrovna's lover

Konstantin Bartashevich

Vladimir Osenev

Kira Golovko

"Dignitary"

Sergey Kulagin

Leonid Pirogov

Leonid Alekseev

Vlas, partisan

Vladimir Uralskiy