Yevgeni Chervyakov as Alexander Pushkin Irina Volodko as Natalie Pushkina Konstantin Karenin as Nicholas I of Russia Boris Tumarin as Baron d'Anthès Leonid Tkachov as Pyotr Vyazemsky Yevgenia Rosiner as Aleksandra, Nathalie's sister Aleksei Feona as Vasily Zhukovsky Ivan Lerskiy as Faddey Bulgarin Aleksandr Larikov as Nikita Olga Spirova as Yekaterina, Nathalie's sister Ivan Khudoleyev as Baron Alexander von Benckendorff Zoya Valevskaya as Idalia Poletika Anatoli Nelidov as Ivan Krylov Fyodor Lopukhov as Nikolai Gogol Gennadiy Michurin as Konstantin Danzas Yevgeni Boronikhin as Vladimir Dahl Nikolai Cherkasov as Charles, the barber Valeri Plotnikov as Baron de Heeckeren Mariya Dobrova as Alexandra Smirnova Pyotr Podvalny as viscount d'Archiac Yevgeniya Rogulina