Cast

• Aleksandr Borisov - Modest Mussorgsky
  Modest Mussorgsky
  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
  
  
• Nikolai Cherkasov
  Nikolai Cherkasov
  Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov , was a Soviet actor and a People's Artist of the Soviet Union.-Career:He was born in Saint Petersburg . From 1919 he was a mime artist in Petrograd's Maryinsky Theatre, the Bolshoi Theatre, and elsewhere...
  
   - Vladimir Stasov
• Vladimir Balashov - Mily Balakirev
  Mily Balakirev
  Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev ,Russia was still using old style dates in the 19th century, and information sources used in the article sometimes report dates as old style rather than new style. Dates in the article are taken verbatim from the source and therefore are in the same style as the source...
  
  
• Yuri Leonidov - Alexander Borodin
  Alexander Borodin
  Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five , who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music...
  
  
• Andrei Popov - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
  
  
• Bruno Freindlich
  Bruno Freindlich
  Bruno Arturovich Freindlich was a Soviet/Russian actor of German ancestry who became People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. His daughter Alisa Freindlich is also a notable actress.-Biography:...
  
   - César Cui
  César Cui
  César Antonovich Cui was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; his avocational life has particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer and music critic; in this sideline he is known as a...
  
  
• Fyodor Nikitin - Alexander Dargomyzhsky
  Alexander Dargomyzhsky
  Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky was a 19th century Russian composer. He bridged the gap in Russian opera composition between Mikhail Glinka and the later generation of The Five and Tchaikovsky....
  
  
• Lyubov Orlova
  Lyubov Orlova
  Lyubov Petrovna Orlova, was the first recognized star of Soviet cinema, famous theatre actress and a gifted singer.She was born to a middle class family in Zvenigorod near Moscow and grew up in Yaroslavl...
  
   - Tatanya Platonova
• Lidiya Shtykan - Aleksandra
• Valentina Ushakova - Nadezhda
• Lidiya Sukharevskaya
  Lidiya Sukharevskaya
  Lidiya Sukharevskaya was a Soviet stage actress and playwright renowned for her work with Nikolay Akimov and Andrey Goncharov. Her frequent stage partner was Boris Tenin, her husband. She also appeared in 14 films between 1939 and 1981...
  
  
• Ivan Dmitriyev
• Konstantin Adashevsky
• V. Bezzubenko
• Lev Fenin
• Georgi Georgiu
• Vladimir Morozov - Melnikov
• Georgi Orlov - Petrov
• G. Shnigel
• Vasili Sofronov - Dormidont (as Vyacheslav Safronov)
• Aleksandra Vasilyeva - Mother Mussorgsky