cast
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Sergey Dreyden
The Stranger (The Marquis de Custine)
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Mariya Kuznetsova
Catherine The Great
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Leonid Mozgovoy
The Spy
- Mikhail Piotrovsky Self (Hermitage Director)
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Edisher (Davit) Giorgobiani
Orbeli
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Aleksandr Chaban
Boris Piotrovsky
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Lev Eliseev
Self
- Oleg Khmelnitsky Self
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Alla Osipenko
Self
- Artyom Strelnikov Talented Boy
- Tamara Kurenkova Self (Blind Woman)
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Maxim Sergeev
Peter the Great
- Natalya Nikulenko Catherine the Great
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Elena Rufanova
First Lady
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Elena Kramer
Second Lady
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Konstantin Anisimov
First Cavalier
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Aleksey Barabash
Second Cavalier
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Ilya Shakunov
Third Cavalier
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Aleksandr Kulikov
Fourth Cavalier
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Anna Aleksakhina
Alexandra Feodorovna, Wife of Nicholas II
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Vladimir Baranov
Nicholas II
- Anna Antonelli Princess Anastasia
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Valentin Bukin
Military Official
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Svetlana Gaytan
Museum Custodian
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Vadim Gushchin
Grandee of Catherine the Great
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Kirill Dateshidze
Master of Ceremonies
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Mikhail Dorofeev
First Card Player
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Valentina Egorenkova
Maid of Honor of Catherine the Great
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Oleg Efremov
Museum Official
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Sergei Losev
Court Official
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Vadim Lobanov
Lord Chamberlain
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Vladimir Lisetsky
Court Minister
- Aleksandr Malnykin Servant of Peter the Great
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Kirill Miller
Court Official
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Viktor Mikhaylov
Court Official
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Sergey Muchenikov
Museum Official
- Sergey Nadporozhskiy Court Official
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Yuriy Orlov
Grandee of Catherine the Great
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Aleksandr Razbash
Museum Official
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Boris Smolkin
Chancellor Nesselrode
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Evgeny Filatov
Second Card Player
- Yuri Khomutyansky Insane Italian
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Anatoliy Shvederskiy
Marshall
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Valery Gergiev
Conductor
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Igor Volkov
Ambassador
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Svetlana Svirko
Alexandra Feodorovna, Wife of Nicholas I
- Konstantin Mukhin The Counterman
- Sasha Durpfen Marie Sinclair (as Sandra Orlow)
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Yuriy Ageykin
- Alexandr Andreev
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Dmitri Alexandrov
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Alexander Alexeev
- Andrey Arshinnikov
- Ismat Ashurov
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Artashes Aleksanyan
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Dmitri Bekoyev
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Oleg Palmov
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Aleksandr Tsybulsky
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Aleksandr Petrov
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Serhii Romaniuk
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Nikolay Gravshin
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Konstantin Demidov
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Anatoly Dubanov
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Aleksey Emelyanov
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Dmitriy Zebrov
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Yefim Ioffe
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Olga Kalmykova
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Valentina Kasyanova
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Yuriy Kalugin
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Valeri Kozinets
- Aleksei Krymov
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Igor Okrepilov
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Irina Osnovina
- Valeri Smolyakov
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Boris Sokolov
- Nikolay Fedortsov
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Valeriy Filonov
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Darya Khudyakova
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Vladimir Chernyshov
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Andrey Shchepochkin
- Anya Antonelly
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Egor Bakulin
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Olga Belyavskaya
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Mark Gavrilov
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Yekaterina Gorokhovskaya
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Anna Ekaterininskaya
- Sergey Yelikov
- Aleksandra Kulikova
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Nataliya Kadochnikova
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Mariya Lavrova
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Maria Mescheryakova
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Artur Mkrtchyan
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Aleksey Oding
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Alla Oding
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Kirill Petrov
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Rodion Prikhodko
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Andrey Rodimov
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Yuliya Rudina
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Elena Simonova
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Kirill Ulyanov
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Aleksey Fedkin
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Boris Khasanov
- Rosina Tsidulko
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Yuliya Shubareva
- Svetlana Nemirovskaya
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Vsevolod Tsurilo
- Nataliya Tarynycheva
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Khelga Filippova
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Vyacheslav Manucharov
- Elena Savelieva
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Anna Dyukova
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Igor Besschastnov
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Aleksey Vasilev
- Mikhail Terentyev
- Mikhail Sharautin
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Sergey Peregudov
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Yuliya Gorshenina
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Gali Abaydulov
- Roman Rolbin
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Pavel Kornakov
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Aleksandr Karpov
- Vladimir Belovolsky
- Alexander Balonin
- Galina Burkina
- Eyyup Can Ulas John (voice)
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Aleksandr Sokurov
The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
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Svetlana Smirnova
Widow (uncredited)
- Oleg Losev Court Official (uncredited)
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Philipp Baron
- Vladimir Sevostyanikhin Under-tutor of the Heir
- Yulian Makarov