• 
  Aleksandr Sokurov

  regizor

• 
  Boris Khaimsky

  scenarist

• 
  Aleksandr Chaban

  Boris Piotrovsky
• 
  Aleksandr Sokurov

  The Time Traveller
• 
  Leonid Mozgovoy

  Spionul
• 
  David Giorgobiani

  Orbeli
• 
  Aleksandr Alekseyev
• 
  Oleg Yefremov

  Museum Official

• 
  Yelena Rufanova

  First Lady
• 
  Aleksandr Razbash

  Museum Official
• 
  Artyom Strelnikov

  Talented Boy
• 
  Sergei Dontsov

  The Stranger (The Marquis de Custine)
• 
  David Giorgobiani

  Orbeli
• 
  Alla Osipenko

  Herself
• 
  Maksim Sergeev

  Peter the Great

• 
  Yelena Spiridonova

  Second Lady
• 
  Natalya Nikulenko

  Catherine the Great
• 
  Lev Eliseev

  Himself
• 
  Oleg Khmelnitsky

  Himself
• 
  Tamara Kurenkova

  Herself (Blind Woman)
• 
  Mikhail Piotrovsky

  Himself (Hermitage Director)