The Great Glinka

About the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.

Boris Chirkov

(Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka)

Vasili Merkuryev

(Jacob Ulanov Ulyanich)

Mikhail Derzhavin

(Gen. Vassili Andreyevich Zhukovsky)

Pyotr Aleynikov

(Alexander Pushkin)

Katya Ivanova

(Anna Petrovna Kern)

Valentina Serova

(Maria Petrovna Ivanova Glinka)

Klavdiya Polovikova

(Luisa Karlovna Ivanova)

Nikolai Svobodin

(Baron Igor Feodorovich Rozen)

Aleksander Sobolev

(Glinka as a child)

Lev Snezhnitsky

(Ivan Nikolayevich Glinka)

Elena Kondrateva

(Glinka's Mother)

Mikhail Nazvanov

(Kostya, the Hussar)

Mikhail Yanshin

(Petr Andreyevich Vyazensky)

Mikhail Mikhailov

(Osip Afanovich Petrov)

Viktor Koltsov

(Vladimir Fedorovich Odoyevsky)

Vladimir Vladislavskiy

(Count Mikhail Yurelivich Vielgorsky)

Elizaveta Antonova

(Avdotya Yakolevna Vorobyeva)

Lydia Lipskerova

(Katerina Kern, as an adult)

Boris Livanov

(Czar Nicholas I)

Aleksander Shatov

(Aleksander Benkendorff)

K. Rashevskaya

(Singer of "Antonida")

Mark Pertsovskiy

(Kavos, the conductor)

Vladimir Druzhnikov

Yevgeny Kaluzhsky

(Angry Old Man at Ball)

Konstantin Bartashevich

(Maria Petrovna's lover)

Vladimir Osenev

Kira Golovko

Sergei Kulagin

Leonid Pirogov