Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin, a Novgorod merchant
Boris Bezhko
Pyotr Gluboky
Alexander Kiselev
Igor Matyukhin
Vyacheslav Pochapsky
Leonid Zimnenko

Marfa, his daughter
Irina Bikulova
Yelena Bryleva
Maria Gavrilova
Oxana Gorchakovskaya
Marina Meshcheryakova
Larisa Rudakova
Lolitta Semenina

Grigory Grigorevich Gryaznoy, oprichnik
Pavel Chernykh
Sergei Murzaev
Vladimir Redkin

Grigory Lukiyanovich Malyuta Skuratov, oprichnik
Valery Gilmanov
Mikhail Guzhov
Vasily Kirnos
Alexander Korotky

Ivan Sergeyevich Lykov, boyar
Andrei Dunaev
Sergei Gaydey
Mikhail Gubsky
Oleg Kulko

Lyubasha
Svetlana Belokon
Irina Dolzhenko
Alexandra Durseneva
Irina Makarova
Yelena Obraztsova
Marina Shutova
Tamara Sinyavskaya
Nina Terentieva
Tatiana Yerastova

Yelisey Bomelius, the Tsar’s foreign physician
Alexander Arkhipov
Marat Gali (Galiakhmetov)
Leonid Vilensky

Domna Ivanovna Saburova, merchant’s wife
Irina Rubtsova
Irina Udalova

Dunyasha, her daugther and friend to Marfa
Svetlana Belokon
Yelena Novak
Yelena Okolysheva

Petrovna, the Sobakins’ housekeeper
Alexandra Durseneva
Yevgenia Segenyuk