SYNOPSIS
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant, who falls in love with a young Russian officer, André, and spends the next ten years perfecting the harvester, and pursuing her love, who has been exiled to Siberia.
- Julia OrmondDzheyn
- Oleg MenshikovAndrey Alekseevich Tolstoy / Andrew McCraken
- Aleksey PetrenkoGen. Nikolai Karlovich Radlov
- Richard HarrisDouglas McCraken
- Nikita MikhalkovImperator Aleksandr III
- Vladimir IlinCpt. Pavel Timofeevich Mokin
- Marat BasharovPolievskiy
- Nikita TatarenkovAlibekov
- Georgiy DronovNazarov
- Artyom MikhalkovButurlin
- Daniel OlbrychskiKopnowski
- Marina NeyolovaTolsty's mother
- Avangard LeontevDyadya Nikolya
- Anna MikhalkovaDunyasha
- Robert HardyForsten
- Elizabeth SpriggsPerepelkina
- Isabelle RenauldImperatritsa
- Evgeniy SteblovGrand duke Alexey
- Inna NabatovaGrand duchess Alexandra
- Filipp DyachkovGrand duke Mikhail
- Vladimir ZaytsevRadkov's Adjutant
- Viktor VerzhbitskiyGrand duke's adjutant
- Leonid KuravlyovGuard Bukin
- Aleksandr LenkovScientist
- Aleksandr IlinMerchant