Cast
Boris Chirkov
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Vasili Merkuryev
Jacob Ulanov Ulyanich
Mikhail Derzhavin
Gen. Vassili Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Pyotr Aleynikov
Alexander Pushkin
Katya Ivanova
Anna Petrovna Kern
Valentina Serova
Maria Petrovna Ivanova Glinka
Klavdiya Polovikova
Luisa Karlovna Ivanova
Nikolai Svobodin
Baron Igor Feodorovich Rozen
Aleksander Sobolev
Glinka as a child
Lev Snezhnitsky
Ivan Nikolayevich Glinka
Elena Kondrateva
Glinka's Mother
Mikhail Nazvanov
Kostya, the Hussar
Mikhail Yanshin
Petr Andreyevich Vyazensky
Mikhail Mikhailov
Osip Afanovich Petrov
Viktor Koltsov
Vladimir Fedorovich Odoyevsky
Vladimir Vladislavskiy
Count Mikhail Yurelivich Vielgorsky
Elizaveta Antonova
Avdotya Yakolevna Vorobyeva
Lydia Lipskerova
Katerina Kern, as an adult
Boris Livanov
Czar Nicholas I