Season 1 • Episode 12
LatestFaik-pasha, who had long avoided a large-scale assault on the fortress, finally made up his mind: the Turks had a long-range Krupp cannon of great destructive power. One of its first salvoes seriously wounded the best gunner of the garrison, Kiryukha Postny.
Acting
Serebryakov broods magnificently through every cannon blast.
Production
Surprisingly ambitious scale for early 2000s Russian TV.
Aleksey Serebryakov
Andrey Eliseevich Karabanov
Olga Budina
Olga Egorovna Khvoshchinskaya
Viktor Solovyov
Nikita Semenovich Khvoshchinsky
Boris Khimichev
Adam Platonovich Patsevich
Aleksandr Dyachenko
Nazar Minaevich Vatnin
Aleksandr Tyutin
Efrem Ivanovich Shtokvits
Sergey Batalov
Tryokchzhonny
Sergey Grekov
Andrey Borisovich Sivitsky
Ignat Akrachkov
Fedor Petrovich Klyugenau
Aleksandr Efimov
Latyshev
Gennady Matveev
Nikolai Sergeevich Potresov
Yuriy Nazarov
Khrenov
Sergey Udovik
Kiryukha Postny
Oleg Morozov
Yuri Timofeevich Nekrasov
Evklid Kyurdzidis
Kozi Magoma
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Pikul's 1973 novel, which romanticized the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War during a Soviet era hungry for patriotic historical fiction.
Stambula and Chernykh co-directed after separately cutting teeth on Soviet military miniseries; their clashing visions allegedly made editing a battlefield of its own.
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