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.
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Top Cast
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)
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