Ralph Fiennes as Mikhail Rakitin

Sylvie Testud as Elisaveta Bogdanovna

Aleksandr Baluev as Arkadi Islaev

Larisa Malevannaya as Anna Semenovna

Sergey Yushkevich as Ignaty Shpigelsky

Anna Vartanyan as Natalya Petrovna

Anna Nakhapetova as Katya, servant

Anna Levanova as Verochka

Nikita Volkov as Aleksei Belyaev

Bernd Moss as Schaaf

Vasiliy Mishchenko as Afanasy Bolshintsov