

The Poet and the Tsar
Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès, a French officer, with the help of Count Alexander von Benckendorff. Pushkin hears rumours of D’Anthès’s love for his wife and challenges him to a duel.
Director
Vladimir GardinCast

Yevgeni Chervyakov
Aleksandr Pushkin

Irina Volodko
Natalie Pushkina
Konstantin Karenin
Nikolas the I'st

Boris Tamarin
Baron Dantes
Leonid Tkachyov
Vyasemskiy

Aleksandr Larikov
Nikita

Ivan Khudoleyev
Baron Benkendorf

Aleksei Feona
Zhukovskiy

Gennadi Michurin
Danzas

Ivan Lerskiy
Bulgarin

Yevgeni Boronikhin
Dal

Zoya Valevskaya
Poletika

Anatoli Nelidov
Krylov
Olga Spirova
Yekaterina, Nathalie's sister
Yelizaveta Roziner
Aleksandra, Nathalie's sister

Fyodor Lopukhov
Gogol

Viktor Plotnikov
Baron Gekkeren
Mariya Dobrova
Smirnova-Rosset

Nikolai Cherkasov
Charles (uncredited)

Pyotr Podvalniy
D'Archiaq (uncredited)