Characters
- Boris Godunov, boyar, later Tsar
- Fyodor, his son
- Kseniya, his daughter
- Kseniya’s Nurse
- Prince Shuyskiy, boyar
- Prince Vorotinskiy, boyar
- Shchelkalov, Secretary of the Duma
- Pimen, monk and chronicler
- Grigoriy Otrepyev, monk, later Dmitriy, the Pretender
- Patriarch, Abbot of the Chudov Monastery.
- Misail, wandering monk
- Varlaam, wandering monk
- Afanasiy Mikhailovich Pushkin, friend of Prince Shuyskiy
- Gabriel Pushkin, his nephew
- Semyon Nikitich Godunov, secret agent of Boris Godunov
- Prince Kurbskiy, disgraced boyar
- Khrushchov, disgraced boyar
- Karela, a Cossack
- Prince Vishnevetskiy
- Mniszech, Voyevoda of Sambor
- Marina, his daughter
- Ruzya, her chambermaid
- Basmanov, a Russian officer
- Marzharet, officer of the Pretender
- Rozen, officer of the Pretender
- Mosalskiy, boyar
- Hostess of the Inn
- Boyars, People, Peasants, Inspectors, Officers, Attendants, Guests, a Catholic Priest, a Polish Noble, a Poet, an Idiot, a Beggar, Gentlemen, Guards, Soldiers, Ladies, Gentleman, Boys, Servants
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