Historical drama about the engineer of the first printing press built in Muscovite Rus' and his complicated relationship with the state under the rule of tsar Ivan IV ("the Terrible"). Released for theaters as a 2-part 147 minute movie and for TV as a 5-part 5-hour miniseries.

Fyodor Sukhov
Ivan Fyodorov

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Ivan the Terrible

Valeri Poroshin
Metropolitan Makariy

Valeriy Smetskoy
Fyodor Basmanov

Alexander Trofimov
Father Silvester

Nikita Dzhigurda
Andrei Kurbsky
Oleg Demidov
Mikhailo Kashin

Rim Ayupov
Maksim Grek

Vladimir Ivashov
Aleksei Adashev

Irina Cherichenko
Taisia
Anatoliy Bobrovskiy
Episcop Ignatiy