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

Aleksander Shatov

Aleksander Benkendorff