Roles
| Role | Voice type | World premiere, St. Petersburg 29 November (Old Style) (9 December, NS) 1836 (Conductor: Catterino Cavos) |
Moscow premiere 7 September (Old Style) 1842 (conductor: Ivan Iogannis ) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivan Susanin, a peasant of the village of Domnino | bass | Osip Petrov | Dmitriy Kurov |
| Antonida, his daughter | soprano | Mariya Stepanova | Mariya Leonova |
| Vanya, Susanin's adopted son | contralto | Anna Petrova-Vorobyova | Anfisa Petrova |
| Bogdan Sobinin, a militiaman, Antonida's fiance | tenor | Lev Leonov | Aleksandr Bantïshev |
| Commander of the Polish Detachment | bass | Sergey Baykov | |
| A Polish courier | tenor | I. Makarov | |
| Commander of the Russian Detachment | bass | Aleksey Yefremov | |
| Chorus and silent: Peasant men and women, militiamen, Polish nobles and ladies, knights | |||
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