MINDBLOWING PETER I: THE LAST TZAR, THE FIRST EMPEROR EPIC MOVIE TRAILER! SEE THE ARTIST IN CRIME IN NEW RUSSIAN WORLD WAR TWO SET HISTORICAL TV SERIES HUDOZHNIK

 PETER I: THE LAST TZAR 

& THE FIRST EMPEROR TRAILER

Another massive project currently in Russian cinemas is a mix of a documentary movie and historical live action epic PETER I: THE LAST TZAR AND THE FIRST

The movie is out in cinemas since November 3rd

EMPEROR (Петр I: Последний царь и первый император) which is out in their cinemas since November 3rd! The figure of Emperor Peter the Great (Aleksei Lukin), as well as the era of his formation and reign, still excites the minds of people all over the world. The creators answer questions about how to take the throne when you are the fourteenth child in the family; how to win access to the sea when there is no professional army and navy in the country; how, in a few decades, to bring to the world leaders a country that no one had considered before, and many others. Andrei Kravchuk directed this epic movie.

 

  HUDOZHNIK TV SERIES  

THE ARTIST IN CRIME

Since our From Russia With Love weekend brought us a massive increase in visitors, I figured we could stay one more day in Russia as I have THE ARTIST (Hudozhnik) series to present to you. The sixteen episode historical series, which already started airing back in September on Russia 1 national

The series has sixteen hourlong episodes

broadcaster, stars Andrey Smolyakov, Aleksandr Gorbatov, our dear Catherine the Great Marina Aleksa- ndrova, and our sweet boo Kirill Zaytsev (be still our hearts). 

MARCH 1944 

At the front, the Red Army is conducting a confident offensive. The Allies are about to open a second front, and it seems that the final defeat of Nazi Germany is very close. However, the joy of the coming victory is overshadowed by a series of daring and brutal murders. No one has ever managed to see the bandits up close. According to the scanty testimonies of random eyewitnesses, the composition of the attackers is constantly changing. And every time at the crime scene they leave portraits of the dead. For these drawings and cruelty, the gang was nicknamed "Dead Head", and its leader - the Artist.

RUSSIAN WEEKEND: EPIC RUSSIAN TV SAGA BLOODY MISTRESS ON INFAMOUS 18TH CENTURY BARONESS AND SIBERIA SET 17TH CENTURY ADVENTURE TOBOL FROM THE TIME OF PETER THE GREAT!

  'TOBOL' TRAILER

FROM THE TIME OF PETER I

The movie should hit cinemas next month

Since Hollywood is still celebrating Thanksgiving or recovering from Black Friday mania, your trusted spy will take you on a journey through time, deep into adventurous past and straight into brave old Russia in our Russian Weekend! We will start it with sweeping historical epic movie TOBOL (Тобол) which should arrive into Russian cinemas sometime next year. This epic adventure will take us back into the time of Peter I, with the plot based on real events from rich history of Russia.

MANY ARE CALLED, BUT ONLY FEW ARE CHOSEN!
The movie will see Russian star Ilya Malanin playing Ivan Demarin, a young officer of tsar Peter I’s First Guard, who, on the instructions of the great tsar, finds himself in the depths of frozen Siberia in the frontier city of Tobolsk. Here Ivan meets his first love and, together with his regiment, finds himself drawn into the conspiracy of local princes, who are hunting for gold in the Yarkand river. Its fortress is surrounded by hordes of wild Dzungars and there’s no way to wait for help!

  'BLOODY MISTRESS'

RUSSIA'S ELIZABETH BATHORY

The 15 episode saga already aired in Russia

Another interesting historical project coming from Russia was epic TV series BLOODY MISTRESS (Krovavaya Barinya) which aired earlier this year on their national television,  based on the biography of XVIII century landowner Darya Saltykova who lived during the rule of Catherine II. Yuliya Snigir plays the baronnes who was called Saltychikha by her serfs. She was infamous for brutally torturing hundreds of peasants, for which "Russian Elizabeth Bathory" was imprisoned in an underground prison, where she spent 33 years until her death. The series

Svevolod Sokolovskiy plays the male lead in the series!

tells how a young girl who was brought up in a monastery turned into a monster? Catherine the Great, whom Yuliya Snigir herself played in one of the recent epic TV series, is played here by Severija Janusauskaite! The male lead is played by Svevolod Sokolovskiy.