A.N. Ostrovsky recalls the first period of his creative work (1849–1859), when he began collaborating with the Maly Theatre and with masters of the Russian stage such as L.P. Kositskaya, M.S. Shchepkin, and P.M. Sadovsky. Almost every character in this film is a real historical figure.
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Valentina Malyavina
Galina Polskikh
Oleg Yankovskiy
Oleg Anofriev
Boris Ivanov
Leonid Kulagin
German Kachin
Larisa Vadko
Konstantin Voinov
Igor Kashintsev
Vladimir Zamanskiy
Nikita Podgornyj
Sergey Dreyden
Viktor Shulgin
Oleg Chayka
Vladimir Pitsek
Konstantin Berdikov
Nikolay Yerofeyev
Zoya Isayeva
Elena Volskaya
Oleg Panov
Aleksandr Konyashin
Svetlana Rodina-Ljungkvist
Dmitriy Orlovskiy
Tatyana Kuznetsova
Lidiya Govorukhina
Valentina Ponomaryova
Igraf Ioshka
Egor Ryzhov
Yevgeniy Markov
Aleksandr Petrov
Vasiliy Tsygankov
Yuriy Zayev
Ivan Kashirin
Ye. Kiryakova
Vladimir Myshkin
Natalya Gurzo