The Great Glinka

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

Lyudmila Lipskerova Katerina Kern, as an adult

Boris Livanov Czar Nicholas I

Aleksandr Shatov Aleksandr Benkendorff