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
The action takes place in the land of the Berendeyans, in pre-historic times.