Cast

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



Evgeny Filatov

Second Card Player



Yuri Khomutyansky

Insane Italian



Anatoliy Shvederskiy

Marshall



Valery Gergiev

Conductor



Igor Volkov

Ambassador



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



Alexander Alexeev



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



Nikolay Fedortsov



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



Yulian Makarov