Nikolay the Fanatic — Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot Character Profile

About Nikolay the Fanatic

A religious fanatic whose extreme behavior and public challenges reflect the spiritual and social tensions surrounding the Czar's reforms.

Character Facts

Played by

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Appears in

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)

Role

Supporting

More characters from Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

• Czar Ivan IV (Nikolai Cherkasov)
• Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya (Serafima Birman)
• Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky (Pavel Kadochnikov)
• Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov (Mikhail Zharov)
• Ivan IV as a boy (Erik Pyryev)
• Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov (Amvrosii Buchma)
• Prince Andrei Kurbsky (Mikhail Nazvanov)
• Lady from Sigismund's court (Evgenia Bagorskaya)
• The Stranger (uncredited) (Aleksandr Rumnyov)
• King Sigismund of Poland (Pavel Massalsky)
• Elena Glinskaya, Ivan's Mother (Ada Vojtsik)
• Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador (uncredited) (Semyon Timoshenko)