Konstantin Makovsky: A boyarinyaVera: Stefka Evstatieva
Nadeshda: Alexandrina Milcheva
Vlasevna: Stefka Mineva
Boyarin Sheloga: Petar Bakardjiev
Tsar Tomakov: Dimiter Stanchev
Conductor: Stoyan AngelovBulgarian National Radio, 1981, sung in Russian
| The Opera | The Sheloga home; Ivan is away at war. |
| 07:35 | Scene 1 Vera, Ivan's wife, sings her child to sleep. |
| 20:10 | Scene 2 Her sister, Nadeshda, asks who is the child's father. Vera tells of having fainted on the way to the monastery and of waking in the tent of a stranger who later came to her home. |
| 46:10 | Scene 3 Ivan returns, demanding to know whose child is before him. To save her sister, Nadeshda claims the child. |
