Boris Shchukin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Nikolai Cherkasov

Maksim Gorky

Vasiliy Markov

Feliks Edmundovich Dzerjinsky

Leonid Lyubashevsky

Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov

Nikolai Bogolyubov

Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov

Zinaida Dobina

Nadyezda Konstantinovna Krupskaya

Nikolai Okhlopkov

Vasily

Klavdiya Korobova

Vasili's Wife

Aleksandr Shatov

Konstantinov, conspirator chieftain

Vasili Vanin

Kremlin Commandant Mateyev

Vladimir Solovyov

Sintsov, a spy

Nikolai Svobodin

Rutkovsky, a conspirator

Viktor Tretyakov

Novikov, a conspirator

Natalya Efron

Fanni Kaplan

Elena Muzil

Yevdokia Ivanova, Lenin's housekeeper

Mikheil Gelovani

Joseph Stalin

Serafim Koziminsky

Bobilev, Lenin's orderly

Nikolai Plotnikov

Kulak from Tamborsk

Iosif Tolchanov

Andrei Fedorovich, attending physician

Aleksandr Khokhlov

Professor of Medicine

Sergei Antimonov

Polyakov (uncredited)

Vladimir Uralskiy

Commander

Rostislav Plyatt

Viktor Bubnov

Sailor in the Bolshoi theatre (uncredited)