The plot is based on the defense of Petrograd from Yudenich's troops in 1919.

Yuriy Kayurov
V. I. Lenin

Pavel Kashlakov
Pavel Blagovidov

Georgiy Kulikov
Ilya Blagovidov

Ariadna Shengelaia
Irina Vladimirovna

Tatyana Ivanova
Sanka

Vadim Yakovlev
Kostya Osokin

Kazimieras Vitkus
Jan Karlowicz

Vladimir Samoylov
Gavrila Kubantsev

Anatoliy Romashin
Grigori Gorchilich

Nikolai Timofeyev
Roman Neznamov

Nina Veselovskaya
Viktoriya Fyodorovna

Aleksey Kozhevnikov
poet Vadim Luzhanin

Konstantin Adashevsky
Artur Zavadskiy, professor

Pyotr Gorin
Larionov

Nodar Shashigoglu
Aleksandr Rakov