Viktor Khokhryakov

Narrator

Leo Tolstoy

Archive footage

Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky

Film footage

Aleksandra Goncharova

Film footage

Michael Chekhov

Film footage

Nikolai Vasilyev

Film footage

Pavel Knorr

Film footage

Andrey Gromov

Film footage

Ivan Mosjoukine

Film footage

Antoni Fertner

Film footage

Olga Drevnitskaya

Archive footage

Ivan Poddubniy

Archive footage

Pyotr Nesterov

Archive footage

Georgiy Sedov

Archive footage

Vera Kholodnaya

Film footage

Vladimir Maksimov

Film footage

Vera Karalli

Film footage

Vitold Polonsky

Film footage

Olga Gzovskaya

Film footage

Ivane Perestiani

Film footage

Ivan Khudoleyev

Film footage

Ossip Runitsch

Film footage

Nathalie Lissenko

Film footage

Vera Yureneva

Film footage

Lidiya Koreneva

Film footage

Lidiya Tridenskaya

Film footage

Feodor Chaliapin Sr.

Film footage

Konstantin Stanislavski

Archive footage

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

Archive footage

Olga Knipper-Chekhova

Archive footage

Ivan Moskvin

Archive footage

Vladimir Lenin

Archive footage