Russian Ark

2000 cast members, 3 orchestras, 33 rooms, 300 years, ALL IN ONE TAKE

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

Sergey Dreyden

(The Stranger (The Marquis de Custine))

Mariya Kuznetsova

(Catherine The Great)

Leonid Mozgovoy

(The Spy)

Mikhail Piotrovsky

(Self (Hermitage Director))

Edisher (Davit) Giorgobiani

(Orbeli)

Aleksandr Chaban

(Boris Piotrovsky)

Lev Eliseev

(Self)

Oleg Khmelnitsky

(Self)

Alla Osipenko

(Self)

Artyom Strelnikov

(Talented Boy)

Tamara Kurenkova

(Self (Blind Woman))

Maxim Sergeev

(Peter the Great)

Natalya Nikulenko

(Catherine the Great)

Elena Rufanova

(First Lady)

Elena Kramer

(Second Lady)

Konstantin Anisimov

(First Cavalier)

Aleksey Barabash

(Second Cavalier)

Ilya Shakunov

(Third Cavalier)

Aleksandr Kulikov

(Fourth Cavalier)

Anna Aleksakhina

(Alexandra Feodorovna, Wife of Nicholas II)

Vladimir Baranov

(Nicholas II)

Anna Antonelli

(Princess Anastasia)

Valentin Bukin

(Military Official)

Svetlana Gaytan

(Museum Custodian)

Vadim Gushchin

(Grandee of Catherine the Great)

Kirill Dateshidze

(Master of Ceremonies)

Mikhail Dorofeev

(First Card Player)

Valentina Egorenkova

(Maid of Honor of Catherine the Great)

Oleg Efremov

(Museum Official)

Sergei Losev

(Court Official)

Vadim Lobanov

(Lord Chamberlain)

Vladimir Lisetsky

(Court Minister)

Aleksandr Malnykin

(Servant of Peter the Great)

Kirill Miller

(Court Official)

Viktor Mikhaylov

(Court Official)

Sergey Muchenikov

(Museum Official)

Sergey Nadporozhskiy

(Court Official)

Yuriy Orlov

(Grandee of Catherine the Great)

Aleksandr Razbash

(Museum Official)

Boris Smolkin

(Chancellor Nesselrode)

Evgeniy Filatov

(Second Card Player)

Yuri Khomutyansky

(Insane Italian)

Anatoliy Shvederskiy

(Marshall)

Valery Gergiev

(Conductor)

Igor Volkov

(Ambassador)

Julian Makarov

(Nicholas I)

Svetlana Svirko

(Alexandra Feodorovna, Wife of Nicholas I)

Konstantin Mukhin

(The Counterman)

Sasha Durpfen

(Marie Sinclair (as Sandra Orlow))

Yuriy Ageykin

Alexandr Andreev

Dmitri Alexandrov

Aleksandr Alekseev

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

Nikolai Fyodortsov

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

Eyyup Can Ulas

(John (voice))

Aleksandr Sokurov

(The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited))

Svetlana Smirnova

(Widow (uncredited))

Oleg Losev

(Court Official (uncredited))

Filipp Baron

Vladimir Sevostyanikhin

(Under-tutor of the Heir)