Historical drama about the engineer of the first printing press built in Muscovite Rus' and his complicated relationship with the state under the rule of tsar Ivan IV ("the Terrible"). Released for theaters as a 2-part 147 minute movie and for TV as a 5-part 5-hour miniseries.

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Cast

Fyodor Sukhov

Ivan Fyodorov

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Ivan the Terrible

Valeri Poroshin

Metropolitan Makariy

Valeriy Smetskoy

Fyodor Basmanov

Alexander Trofimov

Father Silvester

Nikita Dzhigurda

Andrei Kurbsky

Rim Ayupov

Maksim Grek

Vladimir Ivashov

Aleksei Adashev

Irina Cherichenko

Taisia