Overview

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.

Genres

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