Ivan Mykolaichuk as Taras Shevchenko

Yuriy Leontyev as young Taras

Dmytro Milyutenko as Uncle Ivan

Nataliia Naum as Yadviha Husikovska

Mikhail Derzhavin as Karl Bryullov

Kostiantyn Stepankov as Soshenko

Vasyl Dashenko as Venetsianov

Dmytro Franko as Vasyl Zhukovsky

Ivan Kononenko-Kozelskyi as Hryhorovych

Vladimir Goncharov as Engelhardt

Mykola Talyura as Shyryayev

Efim Kopelyan as Prekhtel

Vladislav Strzhelchik as Nicholas I

Anatoliy Ivanov as Tsar Alexander I

Vladimir Belokurov as Dubelt

Vyacheslav Voronin as Mokrytsky

Rayisa Nedashkivska as Prychynna

Petro Vesklyarov as

Mykola Yakovchenko as

Mykola Hrynko as

Lev Perfilov as Kripak (serf)

Nikolay Pishvanov as

Dmitriy Kostenko as Taras's ancestor