
About the early years of the life of the philosopher and writer Alexander Herzen, about his first and unrequited love, about the throwing of youth and growing up of a young critic and revolutioner. According to his father, he comes from an ancient Russian family, and his mother was a simple German woman. As an illegitimate son, he was not given the name of his father, Yakovlev. In his youth, he was fond of the ideas of freedom, for which it is not a pity to fight, which even then was close to the ideals of the revolution...

as Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

as Ogaryov

as Natasha

as Granovskiy

as Ketcher

as Shchepkin

as official

as Ivan Alekseyevich Yakovlev

as Luiza Ivanovna

as countess Khovanskaya

as footman

as prince

as Vasiliy Petrovich

as official

as general Dubelt

as accused man of arson

as official

as ober-polizeimeister

as Zurov

as Musina-Pushkina

as official

as Nikolai Sazonov

as aunt in Khovanskaya's house

as guard

as official

as prison commandant

as Granovskiy's wife

as prince Obolenskiy (uncredited)

as nanny (uncredited)

as official (uncredited)

as maid (uncredited)

as officer (uncredited)

as Matvey