Nikolai Simonov

Tsar Pyotr I

Mikhail Zharov

Alexander Danilovich Menshikov

Nikolai Cherkasov

Prince Alexei

Mikhail Tarkhanov

Field Marshal Sheremetyev

Viktor Dobrovolsky

Yaguzhinsky, an officer / Fedka, a debtor

Alla Tarasova

Catherine, a peasant girl

Konstantin Gibshman

Buinosov, the boyar

Nikolai Orlov

Yemov

Fyodor Bogdanov

Foundry Owner

Vladimir Garin

Petr Kuznetsov

Vlazemsky

Aleksandr Larikov

Old Soldier

Nina Latonina

Olga Buinosova

Nikolai Litvinov

Shafirov

Vladimir Romashkov

Steward Lavrenty Lykov (uncredited)