Pre-Petrine Russia, Semyon Lazarev, one of the instigators of the “Copper Riot”, is forced to flee, as a result of which he ends up in the army of the leader of the peasant uprising Stepan Razin.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Andrei PonomaryovSemyon | Semyon |
 Aleksandr FilippenkoTaisiy | Taisiy |
 Aleksandr ParraPatriarch Nikon | Patriarch Nikon |
 Andrey MartynovBoyar Zyuzin | Boyar Zyuzin |
 Irina TsyvinaBoyarina Malka | Boyarina Malka |
 Elena DrobyshevaUlka | Ulka |
 Gennadi FrolovDeacon Ivan | Deacon Ivan |
 Valentina FedotovaSekletaya Petrovna | Sekletaya Petrovna |
 Boris NevzorovLazar Palych | Lazar Palych |
 Arshak OganyanKonon | Konon |
| OOleg AntonovKirilka | Kirilka |
 Valentin PechnikovUlka's father | Ulka's father |
 Leonid YukhinSerafim | Serafim |
 Vadim ZakharchenkoMonk Ankudim | Monk Ankudim |
 Sergei PlotnikovDuma boyar | Duma boyar |
 Nikolai MerzlikinDuma boyar | Duma boyar |
 Yuriy SarantsevPosadskiy | Posadskiy |
| MMargarita SerdtsevaFimka | Fimka |
 Zinaida NaryshkinaHanger-on Hag | Hanger-on Hag |
 Sergei BorisovNot listed | Not listed |
 Yuriy ZaytsevNot listed | Not listed |
 Aleksandr GusevNot listed | Not listed |
| PPyotr DenisovNot listed | Not listed |
| AAleksei YelizavetinskyNot listed | Not listed |
| IIgor KosukhinNot listed | Not listed |