- as Czar Ivan IV
- as Czarina Anastasia Romanovna
- as Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya
- as Prince Andrei Kurbsky
- as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
- as Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov
- as Fyodor Basmanov
- as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky
- as Boyar Fyodor Kolychev
- as Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen
- as Archdeacon
- as Nikola, Simpleton Beggar
- as Sigismond, King of Poland
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