Amvrosii Buchma

as Taras Shevchenko

Vasyl Liudvynskyi

as Taras in childhood

Nikolai Panov

as Taras's father

Matvei Lyarov

as Engelhardt, landowner

Ivan Zamychkovskyi

as Shchepkin, actor

Boris Lesovoy

as Zhukovskiy, poet

Volodymyr Lisovskyi

as General

Ivan Khudoleyev

as Nicholas I

Viktor Dobrovolsky

as Alexander II

Arkadiy Malskiy

as Deacon

Musiy Dzhura

as Taras's grandfather

Yurii Shumskyi

Ivan Kapralov

Nataliia Uzhvii

A. Ostashevsky

K. Keleynikov

A. Lyarova