Sofya: Galina Vishnevskaya  Lyubka: Nina Lebedeva  Frosya: Elena Obraztsova  Khivrya: Veronika Borisenko  Semyon's mother: Nina Novosyolova  First woman: Nina Fomina  Second woman: Galina Borisova  Third woman: Nina Grigoryeva  Semyon: Vladimir Atlantov  Mikola: Aleksandr Arkhipov  Tsaryov: Yuri Mazurok  Von Vichrov: Vladimir Valaitis  Tkachenko: Artur Eizen  Ivasenko: Stanislav Frolov  A worker: Aleksey Maslennikov  A translator: Vitali Vlasov  Old men: Boris Morozov and Yuri Korolyov  First Gaydamak: Vladimir Filippov  Second Gaydamak: Anatolit Mishutin 

Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Bolshoi Opera visiting La Scala  6 November 1973

In-house recording