The series is set in the Russian Empire during the second half of the 19th century, against the backdrop of social upheaval and the Russo-Turkish War. At the heart of the story is the romance between Sofya, a student at the Institute for Noble Young Ladies, and the married Count Vorontsov.
as Sofya Ivanovna Vorontsova (Gorchakova)
as Vladimir Vorontsov
as Andrey Khovansky
as Lidiya Sokolova
as Miriam
as Anastasia Chernevskaya
as Varvara Kulakova
as Nikolay Markin
as Platon
as Nina Andreevna Mancini
as Giovanni Mancini
as Zeynab
as Dmitriy Zotov
as Alevtina Zotova
as Evgeny Butov
as Nadya Muravyeva
as Oksana Nechiporenko
as Yusuf-pasha
as Adil-pasha
as Rifat-pasha
as Ahmet-pasha
as Aslan
as Mustafa
as Sklifosofsky
as Akulina
as Glashenka
as Grigory Fedotovich Proskurin
