Russian Ark

Sergey Dreyden

The Stranger (The Marquis de Custine)

Mariya Kuznetsova

Catherine The Great

Leonid Mozgovoy

The Spy

Mikhail Piotrovsky

Self (Hermitage Director)

Edisher (Davit) Giorgobiani

Orbeli

Aleksandr Chaban

Boris Piotrovsky

Lev Eliseev

Self

Oleg Khmelnitsky

Self

Alla Osipenko

Self

Artyom Strelnikov

Talented Boy

Tamara Kurenkova

Self (Blind Woman)

Maxim Sergeev

Peter the Great

Natalya Nikulenko

Catherine the Great

Elena Rufanova

First Lady

Elena Kramer

Second Lady

Konstantin Anisimov

First Cavalier

Aleksey Barabash

Second Cavalier

Ilya Shakunov

Third Cavalier

Aleksandr Kulikov

Fourth Cavalier

Anna Aleksakhina

Alexandra Feodorovna, Wife of Nicholas II

Vladimir Baranov

Nicholas II

Anna Antonelli

Princess Anastasia

Valentin Bukin

Military Official

Svetlana Gaytan

Museum Custodian

Vadim Gushchin

Grandee of Catherine the Great

Kirill Dateshidze

Master of Ceremonies

Mikhail Dorofeev

First Card Player

Valentina Egorenkova

Maid of Honor of Catherine the Great

Oleg Efremov

Museum Official

Sergei Losev

Court Official

Vadim Lobanov

Lord Chamberlain

Vladimir Lisetsky

Court Minister

Aleksandr Malnykin

Servant of Peter the Great

Kirill Miller

Court Official

Viktor Mikhaylov

Court Official

Sergey Muchenikov

Museum Official

Sergey Nadporozhskiy

Court Official

Yuriy Orlov

Grandee of Catherine the Great

Aleksandr Razbash

Museum Official

Boris Smolkin

Chancellor Nesselrode

Evgeniy Filatov

Second Card Player

Yuri Khomutyansky

Insane Italian

Anatoliy Shvederskiy

Marshall

Valery Gergiev

Conductor

Igor Volkov

Ambassador

Svetlana Svirko

Alexandra Feodorovna, Wife of Nicholas I

Konstantin Mukhin

The Counterman

Sasha Durpfen

Marie Sinclair (as Sandra Orlow)

Yuriy Ageykin

Alexandr Andreev

Dmitri Alexandrov

Alexander Alexeev

Andrey Arshinnikov

Ismat Ashurov

Artashes Aleksanyan

Dmitri Bekoyev

Oleg Palmov

Aleksandr Tsybulsky

Aleksandr Petrov

Serhii Romaniuk

Nikolay Gravshin

Konstantin Demidov

Anatoly Dubanov

Aleksey Emelyanov

Dmitriy Zebrov

Yefim Ioffe

Olga Kalmykova

Valentina Kasyanova

Yuriy Kalugin

Valeri Kozinets

Aleksei Krymov

Igor Okrepilov

Irina Osnovina

Valeri Smolyakov

Boris Sokolov

Nikolay Fedortsov

Valeriy Filonov

Darya Khudyakova

Vladimir Chernyshov

Andrey Shchepochkin

Anya Antonelly

Egor Bakulin

Olga Belyavskaya

Mark Gavrilov

Yekaterina Gorokhovskaya

Anna Ekaterininskaya

Sergey Yelikov

Aleksandra Kulikova

Nataliya Kadochnikova

Mariya Lavrova

Maria Mescheryakova

Artur Mkrtchyan

Aleksey Oding

Alla Oding

Kirill Petrov

Rodion Prikhodko

Andrey Rodimov

Yuliya Rudina

Elena Simonova

Kirill Ulyanov

Aleksey Fedkin

Boris Khasanov

Rosina Tsidulko

Yuliya Shubareva

Svetlana Nemirovskaya

Vsevolod Tsurilo

Nataliya Tarynycheva

Khelga Filippova

Vyacheslav Manucharov

Elena Savelieva

Anna Dyukova

Igor Besschastnov

Aleksey Vasilev

Mikhail Terentyev

Mikhail Sharautin

Sergey Peregudov

Yuliya Gorshenina

Gali Abaydulov

Roman Rolbin

Pavel Kornakov

Aleksandr Karpov

Vladimir Belovolsky

Alexander Balonin

Galina Burkina

Eyyup Can Ulas

John (voice)

Aleksandr Sokurov

The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)

Svetlana Smirnova

Widow (uncredited)

Oleg Losev

Court Official (uncredited)

Filipp Baron

Vladimir Sevostyanikhin

Under-tutor of the Heir

Yulian Makarov