The Fall of the Empire

The Fall of the Empire
Written by	Leonid Yuzefovich Vladimir Khotinenko
Directed by	Vladimir Khotinenko
Starring	Aleksandr Baluev Sergei Makovetsky Maria Mironova Chulpan Khamatova
Country of origin	Russia
Original language	Russian
No. of episodes	10
Production
Running time	520 min.
Release
Original network	Channel One Russia
Original release	2005 (2005) – 2005 (2005)

The Fall of the Empire (Russian: Гибель империи, romanized: Gibel' imperii) is a Russian TV miniseries in ten episodes directed by Vladimir Khotinenko, broadcast in March 2005.^[1][2]

It is set in World War I, following Russian counterintelligence officer Sergei Pavlovich Kostin (Aleksandr Baluev), a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, who works to uncover enemy plots aided by his sidekick Ivan Karlovich Shtol'ts (Marat Basharov).

Cast[]

Main characters of the series[]

• Alexander Baluev - Captain of counterintelligence Sergei Pavlovich Kostin
• Sergei Makovetsky - Professor of Law, and then the captain of the Army Intelligence Alexander Mikhailovich Nesterovsky
• Maria Mironova - Elena Ivanovna Saburova
• Chulpan Khamatova - Olga Semenovna Nesterovskaya
• Marat Basharov - lieutenant counterintelligence Ivan Karlovich Stolz
• Andrey Krasko - non-commissioned counterintelligence officer Nikolai Alexeyevich Strelnikov

The real historical figures in the series[]

• Vladislav Galkin - head of counterintelligence Boris Nikitin
• Sergei Nikonenko - Paul von Rennenkampf
• Alexander Bashirov - Lavr Kornilov
• Fedor Bondarchuk - Anton Denikin
• Dmitry Pevtsov - Nikolay Dukhonin
• Andrey Nevraev - Emperor Nicholas II
• Andrei Zibrov - Pavel Pereverzev
• Alexander Mezentsev - General Aleksei Brusilov
• Alexey Medvedev - Nikolai Krylenko
• Danil Lavrenov - Leonid Kannegisser
• Alexander Voitov - Moisei Uritsky
• Yuri Tsurilo - Yuri Steklov
• Valentina Kasyanova - Nadezhda Krupskaya
• Victor Smirnov - Colonel Moroz (prototype - Viktor Klimenko)
• Maria Poroshina - socialist revolutionary Maria Kovskaya (prototype - Irina Kakhovskaya)
• Stanislav Nikolsky - Semyon Roshal
• Viktor Bychkov - Stepnin, also as Yakov Ganetsky
• Alexander Pashutin - General Grigoriev

Other characters[]

• Ivan Agafonov - janitor
• Sergey Astakhov - Karevsky
• Andrey Astrakhantsev - socialist revolutionary Leonid Charny
• Johan Bott - The German Soldier Karl
• Gosha Kutsenko - Gibson
• Juozas Budraitis - Kranz
• Axel Buchholz - Stolberg
• Yuri Vasiliev - owner of the cinema "Lotos"
• Viktor Verzhbitsky - Ghanaian
• Sergei Garmash - Sakharov, the prophet "Kassandrov"
• Tatyana Dogileva - hostess of the apartment, Zina's mother
• Sergey Dreyden - Grohovsky
• Aleksei Kravchenko - Staff Captain Rysin
• Evgeny Leonov-Gladyshev - socialist revolutionary Shilenko
• Alexander Lykov - filmmaker
• Dmitry Marianov - Captain Bredel
• Darya Moroz - maid Katya
• Daniel Olbrychski - Strombakh
• Sergey Parshin - Ryabikov
• Alexander Pashkov - Mitya, driver (in 3rd and 6th episodes is named Pasha)
• Alexander Polovtsev - Antipov
• Ksenia Rappoport - Alina Gorskaya
• Igor Sklyar - Ricks
• Semyon Strugachev - Franz Fleishman
• Glafira Tarkhanov - Tanya Zaitseva
• Mikhail Trukhin - Maletsky
• Dmitry Ulyanov - Stetsevich
• Nina Usatova - Zaitseva, Aunt Tanya
• Ville Haapasalo - Tarvilainen
• Konstantin Khabensky - Boris Sergeevich Lozovsky
• Vladimir Khotinenko - Colonel Yakubov
• Mikhail Porechenkov - captain with a white flag (finale of the 8th series, in titles is indicated as ensign)
• André Hennicke - employee of the German embassy, then captain of the German army intelligence Rigert
• Larissa Shakhvorostova - socialist revolutionary Kiseleva
• Dmitriy Shevchenko - socialist revolutionary Semchenko
• Justina Rudite - girl
• Alexander Rublev - soldier (in the episodes "Red Bows" and "Prayer Officer")

References[]

External links[]

The Fall of the Empire at IMDb

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