cast
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Sergei Kurilov
Belinsky
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Aleksandr Borisov
Gertsen
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Vladimir Chestnokov
Nekrasov
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Georgiy Vitsin
Gogol
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Nikolai Afanasyev
Lermontov
- Igor Litovkin Turgenev
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Nina Mamayeva
Belinskaya
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Yuri Lyubimov
Frolov
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Vladimir Belokurov
Barsukov
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Konstantin Skorobogatov
Krestyanin
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Boris Dmokhovsky
Dubelt
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Mikhail Nazvanov
Nikolai I
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Yuriy Tolubeev
Schepkin
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Konstantin Adashevsky
Belinskiy's opponent / Peddler
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Nikolay Kharitonov
student at gallery
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Lev Kolesov
Kraevskiy
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Aleksandr Chekayevsky
(uncredited)