
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