Sergei Kurilov

Belinsky

Aleksandr Borisov

Gertsen

Vladimir Chestnokov

Nekrasov

Georgiy Vitsin

Gogol

Nikolai Afanasyev

Lermontov

Igor Litovkin

Turgenev

Nina Mamayeva

Belinskaya

Yuri Lyubimov

Frolov

Vladimir Belokurov

Barsukov

Konstantin Skorobogatov

Krestyanin

Boris Dmokhovsky

Dubelt

Mikhail Nazvanov

Nikolai I

Yuriy Tolubeev

Schepkin

Konstantin Adashevsky

Belinskiy's opponent / Peddler

Nikolay Kharitonov

student at gallery

Lev Kolesov

Kraevskiy

Aleksandr Chekayevsky

(uncredited)