Cast 17

1. 

   Nikolai Cherkasov

   Czar Ivan IV

2. 

   Serafima Birman

   Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

3. 

   Pavel Kadochnikov

   Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

4. 

   Mikhail Zharov

   Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

5. 

   Amvrosi Buchma

   Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

6. 

   Vsevolod Pudovkin

   Nikolay the Fanatic

7. 

   Mikhail Kuznetsov

   Fyodor Basmanov

8. 

   Alexander Mgebrov

   Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen

9. 

   Andrei Abrikosov

   Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)

10. 

    Vladimir Balashov

    Pyotr Volynets

11. 

    Eric Pyryev

    Ivan IV as a boy

12. 

    Mikhail Nazvanov

    Prince Andrei Kurbsky

13. 

    Pavel Massalsky

    King Sigismund of Poland

14. 

    Ada Vojtsik

    Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother

15. 

    Aleksandr Rumnyov

    The Stranger (uncredited)

16. 

    Sergei Stolyarov

    (uncredited)

17. Semyon Timoshenko

    Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador (uncredited)

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