Ken Ogata

Koudayu Daikokuya - captain

Toshiyuki Nishida

Atsuzou - navigator

Takuzō Kawatani

Koichi

Noboru Mitani

Kudzaemon

Hiroyuki Okita

Shinzou

Nozomibun Yoneyama

Isokichi

Tohru Emori

Sadanobu Matsudaira

Marina Vlady

Yekaterina II - empress

Oleg Yankovskiy

Kirill Gustavovich Laksman - academician

Evgeniy Evstigneev

Bush - gardener

Elena Arzhanik

Sofya Ivanovna Bush

Yuriy Solomin

Bezborodko - count

Vitali Solomin

Shelekhov - Irkutsk nobleman

Viktor Stepanov

Yakov Nevidimov

Anastasiya Nemolyaeva

Tatyana

Tatyana Bedova

Anatoliy Skoryakin

Vladimir Eryomin

Vorontsov - count

Sergei Stepanchenko

Boris - Nevidimov's servant

Viktor Smirnov

Iosif

Aleksandr Blok

Sergei Parshin

Russian naval officer

Boris Klyuev

Russian naval officer

Yuji Ueda

Mikhail Godin

city dweller

Pavel Kornakov

Leonard Varfolomeev

Tatyana Mikhalevkina

Aleksey Serebryakov

seafarer

Elena Borzunova

reads voiceover (voice)

Igor Taradaikin

reads voiceover (voice)