Sofya: Galina Vishnevskaya
Lyubka: Nina Lebedeva
Frosya: Elena Obraztsova
Khivrya: Veronika Borisenko
Semyon's mother: Nina Novosyolova
First woman: Nina Fomina
Second woman: Galina Borisova
Third woman: Nina Grigoryeva
Semyon: Vladimir Atlantov
Mikola: Aleksandr Arkhipov
Tsaryov: Yuri Mazurok
Von Vichrov: Vladimir Valaitis
Tkachenko: Artur Eizen
Ivasenko: Stanislav Frolov
A worker: Aleksey Maslennikov
A translator: Vitali Vlasov
Old men: Boris Morozov and Yuri Korolyov
First Gaydamak: Vladimir Filippov
Second Gaydamak: Anatolit Mishutin
Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Bolshoi Opera visiting La Scala
6 November 1973
In-house recording
