Mikhail Alekseyev as Self (with Tsar Nicholas) (archive footage)

Alexei Brusilov as Self (Consults with Another Officer) (archive footage)

Nikolai Chkheidze as Self (Chairman, 1st Session, Petrograd Soviet) (archive footage)

Emperor Franz Josef as Self (Reviews Troops) (archive footage)

Vera Figner as Self (People's Will Party, in Open Car) (archive footage)

Grand Duchess Anastasia as Self (archive footage)

Grand Duchess Marie as Self (archive footage)

Grand Duchess Olga as Self (archive footage)

Grand Duchess Tatiana as Self (archive footage)

Aleksandr Guchkov as Self (archive footage)

Iliodor as Self (Monk, Rasputin's Rival) (archive footage) (as Illiodor)

Aleksandr Izvolsky as Self (Ambassador to France, Gets in Carriage) (archive footage)

Joseph Joffre as Self (with Millerand) (archive footage)

Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany as Self (archive footage)

Governor of Kaluga as Self (archive footage)

Alexander Kerensky as Self (Doffs Fur Hat, Shakes Hands of Soldiers) (archive footage)

King George V of the United Kingdom as Self (in Ceremonial Carriage, Not Visible) (archive footage)

Alexander Kolchak as Self (Aboard Ship) (archive footage)

P.V. Krupensky as Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin as Self (archive footage)

V.A. Maklakov as Self (archive footage)

Alexandre Millerand as Self (French War Minister, with Joffre) (archive footage)

Paul Milyukov as Self (archive footage)

Gospodin Nekrasov as Self (archive footage)

Raymond Poincaré as Self (Visits Russia Just Before War Begins) (archive footage)

Vladimir Purishkevich as Self (archive footage)

Fyodor Rodichev as Self (archive footage)

Mikhail Rodzyanko as Self (archive footage)

Aleksey Nikolaeyvitch Romanov as Self (archive footage)

Vasily Shulgin as Self (archive footage) (as V.V. Shulgin)

Vladimir Sukhomlinov as Self (in Plain Field Uniform Coat) (archive footage)

Aleksei Sergeevich Suvorin as Self (Leader, Monarchist Press, Vremya) (archive footage)

Czar Nicholas II of Russia as Self (archive footage)

Tsarina Alexandra as Self (archive footage)

Irakli Tseretelli as Self (Leader, Mensheviks) (archive footage)

N.A. Vtorov as Self (Owner, Vtorovsky Armaments Factory) (archive footage)

Nikolai Yudenich as Self (Signs Papers) (archive footage)