Виктор Хохряков
— Narrator
Léon Tolstoï
— Archive footage
Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky
— Film footage
Aleksandra Goncharova
— Film footage
Michael Chekhov
— Film footage
Николай Васильев
— Film footage
Pavel Knorr
— Film footage
Андрей Громов
— Film footage
Иван Мозжухин
— Film footage
Antoni Fertner
— Film footage
Olga Drevnitskaya
— Archive footage
Ivan Poddubniy
— Archive footage
Пётр Нестеров
— Archive footage
Georgiy Sedov
— Archive footage
Vera Kholodnaïa
— Film footage
Владимир Максимов
— Film footage
Vera Karalli
— Film footage
Vitold Polonsky
— Film footage
Ольга Владимировна Гзовская
— Film footage
Ivan Perestiani
— Film footage
Иван Худолеев
— Film footage
Осип Рунич
— Film footage
Nathalie Lissenko
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Vera Yureneva
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Lidiya Koreneva
— Film footage
Lidiya Tridenskaya
— Film footage
Feodor Chaliapin Sr.
— Film footage
Константин Станиславский
— Archive footage
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
— Archive footage
Olga Knipper-Chekhova
— Archive footage