Plot
Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto undetected emotions. What transpires uncovers a series of revelations about his past and his present self.
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Cast
Pyotr Fyodorov
Yakovlev
Vladimir Mashkov
Earl Beklemishev
Franziska Petri
Aleksandra Iosifovna
Martin Wuttke
German Baron
Sergey Garmash
One-armed nobleman
Yuri Kolokolnikov
Basargin
Aleksandr Yatsenko
Yakovlev Jr.
Yuriy Kuznetsov
Servant
Anton Kuznetsov
merchant, gunsmith
Dmitriy Kulichkov
Chichagov
Pavel Tabakov
Prince Tuchkov
Yuliya Khlynina
Marfa Tuchkova
Alexandr Mizev
officer-jailer
Petr Skvortsov
convict
Igor Khripunov
sekundant knyazya Reyna
Arthur Beschastny
steward
Nikolay Butenin
convict
Pavel Kuzmin
captain Liprandi
Dmitry Lysenkov
senate official
Anatoly Kondyubov
doctor Arndt
Nikita Kukushkin
young sergeant
Alexandr Aravushkin
fortress comendant
Pierre Bourel
Sergey Godin
Igor Khripunov
Sergey Trebesov
Maksim Klimenko
Gleb Temnov
Yan Kuzmin
Nikolay Yakovlev
Svetlana Obidina
Natalya Kalinina
Aleksandra Serebryakova
Artem Vasilyev
Nikolay Kiy
Dmitry Zhuravlev
Svetlana Mertsalova
Lyudmila Grigorash
