hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky

Timofei, hetman's son

Bohun, colonel

Kryvonos, colonel

Ganzha, colonel

Varvara

Solomiya

Andrei Zhurba

Muzhilovskiy, hetman's ambassador

Lizogub, military clerk

hetman Pototsky

lieutenant Orzhelskiy

cossack

military sergeant major

Aleksei Mikhailovich

Yan

polish nobleman

Pototsky's associate

florentine monk

doctor

Gelena (as G. Kravchenko)

ataman Sokolov

catholic bishop Lentovskiy

bishop