3.045 minSeason 1 • Episode 12
LatestAle, along with the young agent Petrenko, board a train to Warsaw. Uritsky sends Yasha to Gunter for the last time to pick up the blueprints and not issue the enemy the subpoenas. Günther, determined to kill his wife for betrayal, spoils the plan. Yasha has to bring Stolz out from under fire of German agents. They manage to escape.
After the unsuccessful attempt on the life of Baron Wrangel and the death of an intelligence agent, a new cunning plan is being developed to implement the "Crimean Mission". The best agent, Elena Golubovskaya, is appointed to this case. In Crimea, Golubovskaya appears already as El Ferrari - a gifted Italian poet. Her task is to eliminate Wrangel in order to demoralize the white movement, as well as control the operation to steal gold. Her plans are thwarted by Maximilian Ermler, a local newspaper journalist who turns out to be a British intelligence agent.
Costume
El Ferrari's poet drag is giving 1920s Eurovision
Acting
Olga Pogodina commits to every absurd alias
Production
Crimean locations doing heavy lifting for period atmosphere
Olga Pogodina
Elle Ferrari/Elena Golubovskaya
Paweł Deląg
Max Ermler
Konstantin Kryukov
Yakov Popov - «Yasha»
Nikolai Dobrynin
Aleksandr Ivanovich Gaev - counterintelligence chief
Aleksandr Bukharov
baron Wrangel
Sergey Gorobchenko
Kanevskiy - Max's henchman
Dmitriy Isaev
Vladimir Spesivtsev - Wrangel's adjutant
Evgeny Koryakovsky
Semyon Uritskiy
Sergey Tezov
Ellington - british consul
Vasiliy Sedykh
Nikolay Sapronov
Nikita Salopin
Ignatiy Kovrov
Polya Polyakova
Judy
Artyom Mikhalkov
Bruner
Eva Aveeva
Varya
Alyona Kovalyova
baroness Wrangel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Wrangel died in 1928 in Belgium, making this an elaborate historical what-if fantasy.
Paweł Deląg is Polish playing British; the international casting adds accidental layers to the 'everyone's pretending' premise.
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