Christa Lewis

饰：Narrator,

谢尔盖·德雷登

Sergei Dontsov

饰：Custine

Maksim Sergeev

饰：Peter I

Mariya Kuznetsova

饰：Catherine the Great

Jens Meurer

饰：自己

提尔曼·巴特纳

Tilman Büttner

饰：Camera

Leonid Mozgovoy

饰：自己

罗恩·霍洛威

Ron Holloway

饰：Film Critic

亚历山大·索科洛夫

Alexander Sokurov

饰：Self,(as Alexander Sokurov)

瓦莱里·捷杰耶夫

Valery Gergiev

饰：Director of the Mariinsky Theatre

Mikhail Piotrovsky

饰：Director of the State Hermitage Museum