8.056 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestVadik, a young opera singer from Moscow, is being transferred to St. Petersburg because his fiancee lives here. As a mentor, Vadik receives a senior operative, Captain Gosha Kolpakov, a psychotic suicidal and misanthropic man living the darkest moment of his life. Two partners travel around St. Petersburg near Bulanov and investigate the case of the disappearance of the corpses of young girls from morgues.
Acting
Kutsenko's suicidal swagger is magnetic and devastating
Writing
Balances corpse theft with genuine philosophical weight
Production
St. Petersburg as rotting character, all marble and mold
Kuzma Saprykin
Vadim Radchenko
Gosha Kutsenko
Gosha Kolpakov
Sofia Lebedeva
Masha
Varvara Feofanova
Aurora
Andrey Fedortsov
Porfirin
Ivan Kupreenko
Pavel Tabakov
Rodya
Sharlot
Igor Gasparyan
Armenian from the bottle
Garik Ayvazov
The Egyptian
Igor Grabuzov
Nikolay Fomenko
Father Feodor
Olga Prokofeva
Masha's mom
Oleg Yagodin
Cossack
Pavel Podkolzin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gosha Kutsenko was a 90s heartthrob; casting him as decaying mentor subverts his entire star persona.
The title '1703' references St. Petersburg's founding year, framing the city itself as a corpse being looted by time.
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