Tsar Berendey: tenor

Bermyata, a boyar a boyar and confidant of the tsar: bass

Spring Beauty: mezzo-soprano

Grandfather Frost: bass

The girl Snow Maiden (Devushka-Snegurochka), [their daughter]: soprano

Bobyl’ [i.e., landless peasant] Bakula: tenor

Bobylikha, his wife: mezzo-soprano

Lel’, a shepherd: alto

Kupava, a young maiden, daughter of a rich villager: soprano

Mizgir’, a merchant guest from the Berendeyans' trading quarter: baritone

First Herald: tenor

Second Herald: bass

The Tsar's Page-Boy: mezzo-soprano

The Wood-Sprite: tenor

Carnival (or Shrovetide), a straw effigy: bass

Boyars, their wives and the tsar's retinue, gusli-players, blind men, skomorokhi, gudok-players, bag-pipers, shepherds, lads and lasss, male and female Berendeyans of every age and calling, forest sprites, Spring's retinue -- birds (cranes, geese, ducks, rooks, magpies, starlings, larks, and others), flowers: chorus