The Fall of the Empire explained

The Fall of the Empire (ru|Гибель империи|Gibel' imperii) is a Russian crime, thriller TV miniseries in ten episodes directed and co-written 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 as Captain of counterintelligence Sergei Pavlovich Kostin
• Sergei Makovetsky as Professor of Law, and then the captain of the Army Intelligence Alexander Mikhailovich Nesterovsky
• Maria Mironova as Elena Ivanovna Saburova
• Chulpan Khamatova as Olga Semenovna Nesterovskaya
• Marat Basharov as lieutenant counterintelligence Ivan Karlovich Stolz
• Andrey Krasko as non-commissioned counterintelligence officer Nikolai Alexeyevich Strelnikov

The real historical figures in the series

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

Other characters

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Гибель империи. VokrugTV.
2. Web site: Гибель империи. Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema.