Boris Chirkov as Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

Vasili Merkuryev as Jacob Ulanov Ulyanich

Mikhail Derzhavin as Gen. Vassili Andreyevich Zhukovsky

Pyotr Aleynikov as Alexander Pushkin

Katya Ivanova as Anna Petrovna Kern

Valentina Serova as Maria Petrovna Ivanova Glinka

Klavdiya Polovikova as Luisa Karlovna Ivanova

Nikolai Svobodin as Baron Igor Feodorovich Rozen

Aleksander Sobolev as Glinka as a child

Lev Snezhnitsky as Ivan Nikolayevich Glinka

Elena Kondrateva as Glinka's Mother

Mikhail Nazvanov as Kostya, the Hussar

Mikhail Yanshin as Petr Andreyevich Vyazensky

Mikhail Mikhailov as Osip Afanovich Petrov

Viktor Koltsov as Vladimir Fedorovich Odoyevsky

Vladimir Vladislavskiy as Count Mikhail Yurelivich Vielgorsky

Elizaveta Antonova as Avdotya Yakolevna Vorobyeva

Lydia Lipskerova as Katerina Kern, as an adult

Boris Livanov as Czar Nicholas I

Aleksander Shatov as Aleksander Benkendorff

K. Rashevskaya as Singer of "Antonida"

Mark Pertsovskiy as Kavos, the conductor

Vladimir Druzhnikov as Rileyev

Yevgeny Kaluzhsky as Angry Old Man at Ball

Konstantin Bartashevich as Maria Petrovna's lover

Vladimir Osenev as

Kira Golovko as

Sergey Kulagin as "Dignitary"

Leonid Pirogov as

Leonid Alekseev as

Vladimir Uralskiy as Vlas, partisan