Cast
Director
Yaropolk Lapshin
Evgeniy Evstigneev as Nikita Demidov
Vadim Spiridonov as Akinfiy Demidov
Aleksandr Lazarev as Peter the Great
Leonid Kuravlyov as Menshikov
Mikhail Kozakov as Biron
Tatyana Tashkova as Marya
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina as Anna Ioannovna
Valeriy Zolotukhin as Panteley
Alexander Ermakov as Grigory
Lyubov Polekhina as Evdokiya Demidova
Lyudmila Chursina as Ekaterina I
Nikolai Skorobogatov as Gudilin
Yuriy Nazarov as Olaf Strenberg
Mikhail Zimin as Vyazemskiy
Vasili Korzun as Tatishchev
Vladimir Balashov as De Gennin
Yuriy Sarantsev as Voivode
Oleg Vidov as Nefedov
Vsevolod Larionov as Ushakov
Nikolai Merzlikin as Platon
Lev Borisov as Krot
Mikhail Bocharov as Kulebyaka
Igor Bogolyubov as Yakov
Anatoliy Azo as soldier
Nikolai Badyev as grandpa
Evgeniy Gvozdyov as episode
Nadezhda Gorshkova as Glasha
Yuri Yershov as architect of the Nevyansk Tower
Igor Efimov as merchant
Valeri Kozinets as master
Vera Titova as Nikita's wife
Nina Titova as mamka
Pavel Fedoseev as episode
Vladimir Karpenko as merchant
Svetlana Kireeva as matchmaker
Vitaly Chetkov as Menshikov's son