The Poet and the Tsar

Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès, a French officer, with the help of Count Alexander von Benckendorff. Pushkin hears rumours of D’Anthès’s love for his wife and challenges him to a duel.

Drama

Yevgeni Chervyakov

(Aleksandr Pushkin)

Irina Volodko

(Natalie Pushkina)

Konstantin Karenin

(Nikolas the I'st)

Boris Tamarin

(Baron Dantes)

Leonid Tkachyov

(Vyasemskiy)

Aleksandr Larikov

(Nikita)

Ivan Khudoleyev

(Baron Benkendorf)

Aleksei Feona

(Zhukovskiy)

Gennadi Michurin

(Danzas)

Ivan Lerskiy

(Bulgarin)

Yevgeni Boronikhin

(Dal)

Zoya Valevskaya

(Poletika)

Anatoli Nelidov

(Krylov)

Olga Spirova

(Yekaterina, Nathalie's sister)

Yelizaveta Roziner

(Aleksandra, Nathalie's sister)

Fyodor Lopukhov

(Gogol)

Viktor Plotnikov

(Baron Gekkeren)

Mariya Dobrova

(Smirnova-Rosset)

Nikolai Cherkasov

(Charles (uncredited))

Pyotr Podvalniy

(D'Archiaq (uncredited))

Alexandra Trishko

((uncredited))

Vladimir Pikok

((uncredited))

Raisa Mamontova

(The Empress (uncredited))

Yevgeniya Rogulina

((uncredited))