Cast
The cast for the opening-night performance were:
- Hamlet: Vasili Kachalov
- Claudius: Nikolai Massalitinov
- Gertrude: Olga Knipper
- Ophelia: Olga Gzovskaia
- Laertes: Richard Boleslavsky
- Polonius: Vasily Luzhsky
- Horatio: Konstantin Khokhlov
- Rosencrantz: S. Voronov
- Guildenstern: Boris Sushkevich
- Osric: V. Tezavrovsky
- Ghost of Hamlet's father: N. Znamensky
- Fortinbras: Ivan Bersenev
- Player King: A. Vishnevsky
- Player Queen: P. Zharikov
- 3rd actor/LUCIANUS: B. Afonin
- 4th actor/Prologue: A. Bondyrev
- Bernardo: B. Afonin
- 1st Gravedigger: V. Gribunin
- 2nd Gravedigger: P. Pavlov
- Priest: I. Lazarev
- Francisco: N. Podgorny
- Marcellus: P. Baksheev
- Voltimand: A. Barov
- Cornelius: Boltin
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