The Stranger

Sergei Dreiden

The Spy

Leonid Mozgovoy

Catherine the Great

Mariya Kuznetsova

Orbeli

David Giorgobiani

Peter the Great

Maksim Sergeev

Hermitage director

Mikhail Piotrovsky

Peter the Great

Maxim Sergeev

Nicholas II

Vladimir Baranov

Boris Piotrovsky

Aleksandr Chaban

Orbeli

Edisher (Davit) Giorgobiani

Peter the Great

Maksim Sergeyev

Court Official

Kirill Miller

Self

Lev Eliseev

Alexandra Fyodorovna, Wife of Nicholas II

Anna Aleksakhina

столовой дворецкий

Oleg Palmov

Self

Oleg Khmelnitsky

conductor

Valery Gergiev

herself

Alla Osipenko

Catherine the Great

Natalya Nikulenko

Aleksandr Tsybulsky

Alexandra Fedorovna, Wife of Nicholas I

Svetlana Svirko

talented boy

Artyom Strelnikov

Nicholas I

Yuriy Zhurin

blind woman

Tamara Kurenkova

Court Official

Viktor Mikhaylov

officer

Aleksandr Petrov

Serhii Romaniuk

first lady

Elena Rufanova

Ekaterina the Great

Mariya Kuznetsova-Benois

Second Lady

Elena Kramer

First Cavalier

Konstantin Anisimov

Boris Piotrovsky

Alexander Chaban

Talented Boy

Artem Strelnikov

second cavalier

Aleksey Barabash

third cavalier

Ilya Shakunov

Fourth Cavalier

Aleksandr Kulikov

Lord Chamberlain

Vadim Lobanov

Second Lady

Yelena Spiridonova

Chancellor Nesselrode

Boris Smolkin

Princess Anastasia

Anna Antonelli

military commander

Valentin Bukin

Museum Custodian

Svetlana Gaytan

Grandee of Catherine the Great

Vadim Gushchin

Museum Official

Aleksandr Razbash

Master of Ceremonies

Kirill Dateshidze

grandee of Ekaterina

Vadim Guschin

first card player

Mikhail Dorofeev

Sergei Romanyuk

Maid of Honor of Catherine the Great

Valentina Egorenkova

Museum Official

Oleg Efremov

Court Official

Sergei Losev

Museum Official

Sergey Muchenikov

Court Minister

Vladimir Lisetsky

Grandee of Catherine the Great

Yuriy Orlov

second card player

Evgeniy Filatov

Yuriy Ageykin

Alexandr Andreev

Nikolay Gravshin

Konstantin Demidov

Anatoly Dubanov

Second Card Player

Evgeny Filatov

Alexey Yemelyanov

Marshall

Anatoliy Shvederskiy

Dmitriy Zebrov

Yefim Ioffe

Tamara Kolesnikova

Ambassador

Igor Volkov

nanny

Olga Kalmykova

Valentina Kasyanova

Court Official

Viktor Mikhailov

Yuriy Kalugin

Valery Kozinets

Aleksei Krymov

Dmitri Alexandrov

Alexander Alexeev

Kirill Petrov

Artashes Aleksanyan

Dmitri Bekoyev

Aleksey Emelyanov

Museum Official

Oleg N. Yefremov

Valeri Kozinets

Igor Okrepilov

Irina Tychinina

Irina Osnovina

Boris Sokolov

Nikolay Fedortsov

Valeriy Filonov

Darya Khudyakova

Vladimir Chernyshov

Andrey Shchepochkin

Anya Yekaterininskaya

Egor Bakulin

Olga Belyavskaya

Mark Gavrilov

Narrator

Alexander Sokurov

Yekaterina Gorokhovskaya

Aleksandra Kulikova

Marshal

Anatoliy Shvedersky

Nataliya Kadochnikova

Mariya Lavrova