Sergey Dreyden as The Stranger (The Marquis de Custine)

Mariya Kuznetsova as Catherine The Great

Leonid Mozgovoy as The Spy

Mikhail Piotrovsky as Self (Hermitage Director)

Edisher (Davit) Giorgobiani as Orbeli

Aleksandr Chaban as Boris Piotrovsky

Lev Eliseev as Self

Oleg Khmelnitsky as Self

Alla Osipenko as Self

Artyom Strelnikov as Talented Boy

Tamara Kurenkova as Self (Blind Woman)

Maxim Sergeev as Peter the Great

Natalya Nikulenko as Catherine the Great

Elena Rufanova as First Lady

Elena Kramer as Second Lady

Konstantin Anisimov as First Cavalier

Aleksey Barabash as Second Cavalier

Ilya Shakunov as Third Cavalier

Aleksandr Kulikov as Fourth Cavalier

Anna Aleksakhina as Alexandra Feodorovna, Wife of Nicholas II

Vladimir Baranov as Nicholas II

Anna Antonelli as Princess Anastasia

Valentin Bukin as Military Official

Svetlana Gaytan as Museum Custodian

Vadim Gushchin as Grandee of Catherine the Great

Kirill Dateshidze as Master of Ceremonies

Mikhail Dorofeev as First Card Player

Valentina Egorenkova as Maid of Honor of Catherine the Great

Oleg Efremov as Museum Official

Sergei Losev as Court Official

Vadim Lobanov as Lord Chamberlain

Vladimir Lisetsky as Court Minister

Aleksandr Malnykin as Servant of Peter the Great

Kirill Miller as Court Official

Viktor Mikhaylov as Court Official

Sergey Muchenikov as Museum Official

Sergey Nadporozhskiy as Court Official

Yuriy Orlov as Grandee of Catherine the Great

Aleksandr Razbash as Museum Official

Boris Smolkin as Chancellor Nesselrode

Evgeniy Filatov as Second Card Player

Yuri Khomutyansky as Insane Italian

Anatoliy Shvederskiy as Marshall

Valery Gergiev as Conductor

Igor Volkov as Ambassador

Svetlana Svirko as Alexandra Feodorovna, Wife of Nicholas I

Konstantin Mukhin as The Counterman

Sasha Durpfen as Marie Sinclair (as Sandra Orlow)

Yuriy Ageykin as

Alexandr Andreev as

Dmitri Alexandrov as

Alexander Alexeev as

Andrey Arshinnikov as

Ismat Ashurov as

Artashes Aleksanyan as

Dmitri Bekoyev as

Oleg Palmov as

Aleksandr Tsybulsky as

Aleksandr Petrov as

Serhii Romaniuk as

Nikolay Gravshin as

Konstantin Demidov as

Anatoly Dubanov as

Aleksey Emelyanov as

Dmitriy Zebrov as

Yefim Ioffe as

Olga Kalmykova as

Valentina Kasyanova as

Yuriy Kalugin as

Valeri Kozinets as

Aleksei Krymov as

Igor Okrepilov as

Irina Osnovina as

Valeri Smolyakov as

Boris Sokolov as

Nikolay Fedortsov as

Valeriy Filonov as

Darya Khudyakova as

Vladimir Chernyshov as

Andrey Shchepochkin as

Anya Antonelly as

Egor Bakulin as

Olga Belyavskaya as

Mark Gavrilov as

Yekaterina Gorokhovskaya as

Anna Ekaterininskaya as

Sergey Yelikov as

Aleksandra Kulikova as

Nataliya Kadochnikova as

Mariya Lavrova as

Maria Mescheryakova as

Artur Mkrtchyan as

Aleksey Oding as

Alla Oding as

Kirill Petrov as

Rodion Prikhodko as

Andrey Rodimov as

Yuliya Rudina as

Elena Simonova as

Kirill Ulyanov as

Aleksey Fedkin as

Boris Khasanov as

Rosina Tsidulko as

Yuliya Shubareva as

Svetlana Nemirovskaya as

Vsevolod Tsurilo as

Nataliya Tarynycheva as

Khelga Filippova as

Vyacheslav Manucharov as

Elena Savelieva as

Anna Dyukova as

Igor Besschastnov as

Aleksey Vasilev as

Mikhail Terentyev as

Mikhail Sharautin as

Sergey Peregudov as

Yuliya Gorshenina as

Gali Abaydulov as

Roman Rolbin as

Pavel Kornakov as

Aleksandr Karpov as

Vladimir Belovolsky as

Alexander Balonin as

Galina Burkina as

Eyyup Can Ulas as John (voice)

Aleksandr Sokurov as The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)

Svetlana Smirnova as Widow (uncredited)

Oleg Losev as Court Official (uncredited)

Filipp Baron as

Vladimir Sevostyanikhin as Under-tutor of the Heir

Yulian Makarov as