
Nikolai Cherkasov
Czar Ivan IV

Serafima Birman
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya

Pavel Kadochnikov
Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky

Mikhail Zharov
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov

Amvrosi Buchma
Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov

Vsevolod Pudovkin
Nikolay the Fanatic

Mikhail Kuznetsov
Fyodor Basmanov

Alexander Mgebrov
Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen

Andrei Abrikosov
Archbishop Philip (formerly Fyodor Kolychev)

Vladimir Balashov
Pyotr Volynets

Eric Pyryev
Ivan IV as a boy

Mikhail Nazvanov
Prince Andrei Kurbsky

Pavel Massalsky
King Sigismund of Poland

Ada Vojtsik
Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother

Aleksandr Rumnyov
The Stranger (uncredited)

Sergei Stolyarov
(uncredited)
Semyon Timoshenko
Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador (uncredited)