Cast 18

1. 

   Nikolai Cherkasov

   Czar Ivan IV

2. 

   Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

   Czarina Anastasia Romanovna

3. 

   Serafima Birman

   Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

4. 

   Mikhail Nazvanov

   Prince Andrei Kurbsky

5. 

   Mikhail Zharov

   Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

6. 

   Amvrosi Buchma

   Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

7. 

   Mikhail Kuznetsov

   Fyodor Basmanov

8. 

   Pavel Kadochnikov

   Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

9. 

   Andrei Abrikosov

   Boyar Fyodor Kolychev

10. 

    Alexander Mgebrov

    Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen

11. 

    Maxim Mikhaylov

    Archdeacon

12. 

    Vladimir Balashov

    Piotr Volynetz

13. 

    Vsevolod Pudovkin

    Nikola, Simpleton Beggar

14. Semyon Timoshenko

    Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador

15. 

    Aleksandr Rumnyov

    The Stranger

16. 

    Pavel Massalsky

    Sigismond, King of Poland

17. Valentina Kuznetsova

    Smiling Woman in the Church (uncredited)

18. 

    Sergei Stolyarov

    (uncredited)

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