Initially, the role of the bard was to be performed by Sergey Makovetsky, and first Konstantin Khabensky and then Fyodor Bondarchuk agreed to play the role of Roman. Yuriy Kutsenko came to the film when the shooting was already in full swing.
Actress Yana Troyanova performed all the tricks in the film without an understudy. During the filming of one of the episodes, she earned a concussion.
In one of the scenes of the film, Yekaterinburg mayor Yevgeny Roizman appeared in the role of himself.