Ken Ogata

as Koudayu Daikokuya - captain

Toshiyuki Nishida

as Atsuzou - navigator

Takuzō Kawatani

as Koichi

Noboru Mitani

as Kudzaemon

Hiroyuki Okita

as Shinzou

Nozomibun Yoneyama

as Isokichi

Tohru Emori

as Sadanobu Matsudaira

Marina Vlady

as Yekaterina II - empress

Oleg Yankovskiy

as Kirill Gustavovich Laksman - academician

Evgeniy Evstigneev

as Bush - gardener

Elena Arzhanik

as Sofya Ivanovna Bush

Yuriy Solomin

as Bezborodko - count

Vitali Solomin

as Shelekhov - Irkutsk nobleman

Viktor Stepanov

as Yakov Nevidimov

Anastasiya Nemolyaeva

as Tatyana

Tatyana Bedova

Anatoliy Skoryakin

Vladimir Eryomin

as Vorontsov - count

Sergei Stepanchenko

as Boris - Nevidimov's servant

Viktor Smirnov

as Iosif

Aleksandr Blok

Sergei Parshin

as Russian naval officer

Boris Klyuev

as Russian naval officer

Yuji Ueda

Mikhail Godin

as city dweller

Pavel Kornakov

Leonard Varfolomeev

Tatyana Mikhalevkina

Aleksey Serebryakov

as seafarer

Elena Borzunova

as reads voiceover (voice)

Igor Taradaikin

as reads voiceover (voice)