Boris Shchukin

Vladimir Lenin

Nikolai Okhlopkov

Vasili, Lenin's protege

Aleksandr Shatov

Konstantinov, conspirator chieftain

Vasiliy Markov

Feliks Edmundovich Dzerjinsky

Vasili Vanin

Kremlin Commandant Mateyev

Nikolai Cherkasov

Maksim Gorky

Leonid Lyubashevsky

Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov

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

Mikhail Gelovani

Joseph Stalin

Nikolai Bogolyubov

Klim Voroshilov

Zinaida Dobina

Nadyezda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (Lenina)

Serafim Koziminsky

Bobilev, Lenin's orderly

Klavdiya Korobova

Vasili's Wife

Nikolai Plotnikov

Kulak from Tamborsk

Iosif Tolchanov

Andrei Fedorovich, attending physician

Aleksandr Khokhlov

Professor of Medicine

Sergei Antimonov

Polyakov (uncredited)

Mikhail Romm

Director

Konstantin Eliseev

Costume Design

E. Abdirkinoi

Editor

Boris Volchek

Director of Photography

Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke

Art Direction

Aleksei Kapler

Writer

Tatyana Berezantseva

Assistant Director

Tatyana Zlatogorova

Writer

Nikolai Kryukov

Original Music Composer

Evgeny Aron

Co-Director

Isidor Simkov

Co-Director

Viktor Ivanov

Art Direction