Overview
Prince Stepan Kasatsky is an officer, an ardent, proud young man, and a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he learns from the bride that she was the mistress of the emperor. The prince is deeply disappointed in social life, he takes a monastic vow and leaves the capital. Faith in God was to save the soul, but passions and worldly temptations don't leave Kasatsky.
Cast
- Sergey Bondarchuk as Stepan Kasatsky / Father Sergius
- Valentina Titova as Mary Korotkova
- Vladislav Strzhelchik as Nicholas I
- Nikolai Gritsenko as general
- Boris Ivanov as hegumen
- Ivan Lapikov as old man on the ferry
- Ivan Solovyov as bishop Nikodim
- Lyudmila Maksakova as Makovkina
- Georgi Burkov as merchant
- Olga Anokhina as merchant's daughter